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Recently the Global Campaign convened a teleconference of all of the scientists who are currently investigating the safety of lime juice for extended vaginal use, including Dr. Robin Shattock at St. Georges College in London, Dr. Gustavo Doncel of Eastern Virginia Medical School, Drs.
Anke Hemmerling and Malcom Potts of University of California at Berkeley, investigators at the Contraceptive Research and Development (CONRAD) program and others.

The purpose of the call was to summarize the various efforts underway to understand the effect of lime juice on human tissue. These efforts include the same pre-clinical cell culture tests used to
screen other microbicide candidates, and two Phase 1 safety studies enrolling women in Berkeley, California and Norfolk, Virginia, USA.

Results from the pre-clinical studies are in press, and data from the Phase One trials are being analyzed. We have urged these scientists to make their findings public as soon as possible in order to advance our knowledge of the potential benefit or harm from lime juice.

Professor Roger Short and his colleague Malcolm Potts of the University of California at Berkeley, photographed in Bangkok's famous "Cabbages and Condoms" restaurant.They're examining a packet of condoms.Filmed at the time of the International AIDS Conference in Bangkok, they were discussing what's now known as the Mary Magdalene project and which refers to female sex workers in Jos, Nigeria.

Co-incidentally, Professor Short was wearing Nigerian garb, a gift from one of the Mary Magdalene Project scientists, Godwin Imade!