AIDS and Sexual Transmission of HIV: Vaginal Liquid with a pH of 2.8-4.2 Protects Women's Health as a Natural Antiseptic
Aleksandr L Urakov1*, Natalya A Urakova2, Anastasia P Stolyarenko3, Darya O Suntsova3, Ilnur I Yagudin3, Nikita M Muhutdinov3 and Varvara V Sokolova3
1DM, Professor, Head of the Department of General and Clinical Pharmacology, Izhevsk State Medical Academy, Izhevsk, Russia
2PhD, Associate Professor of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Izhevsk State Medical Academy, Izhevsk, Russia
3Student of Izhevsk State Medical Academy, Izhevsk, Russia
*Corresponding Author: Aleksandr L Urakov, DM, Professor, Head of the Department of General and Clinical Pharmacology, Izhevsk State Medical Academy, Izhevsk, Russia.
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November 14, 2022; Published: November 21, 2022
HIV continues to be a serious global public health problem, with 40.1 million [33.6-48.6 million] deaths to date [1]. Yet according to the World Health Organization (WHO), there is no cure for HIV. By all accounts, sexual contact with an infected partner is the most likely cause of infection [2-4]. A woman can acquire HIV from her sexual partner through blood, semen or vaginal secretions [4,5].
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