News update - August 2005

The LemonAIDS team have been hard at work for the past few months writing papers and submitting them to high-profile scientific journals. It may take several months before the papers that have been accepted for publication appear in print, and some of the papers have yet to be accepted by the journals concerned, but here are the details:

Accepted for Publication

1. Imade, G.E., Sagay, A.S., Onwuliri, V.A., Egah, D.Z., Potts, M. & Short, R.V. (2005) Use of lemon or lime juice douches in women in Jos, Nigeria. Sexual Health, in press.

(Godwin Imade has been invited to present his paper in Stellenbosch, South Africa, and the Mary Magdalene Project will be funding his travel expenses. See below for more detail)

2. Short, R.V. (2005) New ways of preventing HIV infection: thinking simply, simply thinking. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Spciety, Series B, in press.

Submitted for Publication

3. Clarke, G.N., McCoombe, S.G. & Short, R.V. (2005) The sperm immobilizing properties of lemon juice. Fertility and Sterility. Submitted July 2005.

4. McCoombe, S.G. & Short, R.V. (2005) How HIV-1 infects the human penis. British Medical Journal. Submitted July 2005.

*Godwin Imade will be attending thre 12th Priorities in Reproductive Health and HIV and Third South African Gender Based Violence and Health Conference from 16th - 21 October 2005 at Spier, Stellenbosch in South Africa.

This unique annual conference is recognised in Africa as being one of the major platforms for the sharing of regional research between researchers, clinicians, programme managers and policy makers. Topics include HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections,vaccines (HPV,HIV),microbicides, barrier methods, contraception, adolescent reproductive health etc.

In addition, the conference has just been adopted as a flagship for the newly established WHO funded African Research and Training Network for reproductive Health and HIV (REPRONET AFRICA) which incorporates many of the major research groupings and institutions within the African region.