MEDIA CENTER 
Microbicides
Digital Media Kit

Background Information and Fact Sheets

• "The Population Council, HIV and AIDS, and microbicides" (2008) (full text) (PDF: A4 and letter)

• "Ethics in clinical trials: Population Council's microbicides program" (2008) (PDF: A4 and letter)

• "Population Council microbicide program: A chronology" (2008) (PDF: A4 and letter)

• "Microbicides: The next generations" (2008) (A4) (letter)
• "Benefits of the Population Council's microbicides program and Phase 3 Carraguard trial" (2008) (A4) (letter)
• “Questions and answers about the Population Council’s microbicides program and Phase 3 Carraguard trial” (2008) (A4) (letter)

• Additional fact sheets and other resources

• Program History

Research Area/Program Overviews

• HIV and AIDS

• Microbicides

• South Africa

Resources

• Image archive

• Publications list

• Video clips

Selected Study Team Profiles

     South Africa

• Khatija Ahmed
  Principal Investigator
  (see also "A conversation with . . .")

• Alana de Kock
  Co-Principal Investigator

• Sumentheran N. Govender
  Clinical Study Manager

• Pekka Lähteenmäki
  Director, Microbicides Program

• Gita Ramjee
  Principal Investigator
• Mary-Jane Malebo Ratlhagana
  Microbicides Trial Community Outreach
     Team Member
  (see "A conversation with . . .")

     Other locations

• Barbara Friedland
  Program Manager

• Marlena Gehret
  Senior Data Manager

• Robin Maguire
  Director, Microbicide Product
     Development

• David Phillips
  Senior Scientist

Selected Population Council Management/Senior Staff Profiles

• Ayorinde Ajayi
  Regional Director, Sub-Saharan Africa

• Peter J. Donaldson
  President

• Naomi Rutenberg
  Director, HIV and AIDS Program

• James E. Sailer
  Director, Corporate Affairs

Related News Releases

• "Trial shows anti-HIV microbicide is safe, but does not prove it effective: Research advances HIV prevention field" (2008) (full text)

• "Population Council completed data collection for the Phase 3 efficacy trial of candidate microbicide Carraguard®"  (2007) (full text)

• "Dispatches from the front lines of HIV prevention research"  (2006) (full text)

• "Population Council's Carraguard microbicide candidate begins large-scale efficacy trials in March 2004" (2004) (full text)

• "Population Council’s AIDS prevention product development gets boost from new agreement" (2003) (full text) 

• "Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation supports clinical trials of Population Council's lead candidate AIDS-fighting microbicide" (2002) (full text)

26 February 2008 Op-Ed from The Star (South Africa)

• "Disappointment in trials another lesson" (2008, posted with permission from The Star) (PDF)

Offsite Links

• Global Campaign for Microbicides

  • "About microbicides: Clinical testing" (full text)

  • "Clinical trials: Are they ethical?" (2005) (PDF)