The World Health Organization WHO has advised women to use a vaginal ring as a way to protect them from the risk of contracting HIV
According to the WHO the use of the ring known as DPVVR is a safe way to protect women from the risk of contracting HIV It is after a study conducted by the European Medicines Agency last year
A 28day vaginal ring that a woman wears would be placed and replaced with a new one the WHO continued to explain
Typically the most common method used by people who are HIVfree but at high risk of infection is to take a pill called PrEP preexposure prophylaxis every day to reduce the risk of contracting HIV
Although the use of PrEP was the available method it was shown that it was not reliable at the right rate because in order to be productive it requires a person to use these pills every day without skipping a beat
According to the WHO dapivirine DPVVR is a safe method that can be used by women at high risk of contracting HIV which is able to protect them due to the fact that it contains an antiretroviral drug
This DPVVR ring works in a way that does not interfere with the woman it is easy to send it to the penis otherwise it gradually releases the dapivirine solution within 28 days and gets to be replaced by a new one
In the last 10 years various studies have been conducted to see the reliability of this ring how it is safe and how the body receives it which have been conducted in countries including Belgium the United States of America Kenya Malawi South Africa and Tanzania
The first study was conducted on women between the ages of 18 and 45 with additional studies conducted on older women and adolescents between the ages of 15 and 17
Although the use of the female genital ring as a contraceptive has been used for many years the use of it to protect against HIV is the first time it has been tested
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