Online Media Kit
Welcome to IPM's Online Media Kit, home to quick links that connect journalists and others to our press statements, key multimedia resources for background information on microbicides and IPM's work, and media highlights. Also learn how to contact experts in the field.
Quick Links
- Press Releases & Statements
- Multimedia
- IPM: Pioneering HIV prevention options for women (Fact sheet)
- Microbicide Overview (Fact sheet)
- A Long-Acting Vaginal Ring (Fact sheet)
Featured Media Highlights
FEATURED STORY
March 06, 2018 | POZ
Vaginal Ring Appears to Cut Women's HIV Rate in Half in New Study
The open-label follow-up to a previous placebo-controlled study of an HIV-preventing ring is seeing high use among women. More »
FEATURED STORY
December 19, 2017 | BBC World Hacks
The Ring That Could Help Save Women's Lives (AUDIO)
A new form of protection being tested in Malawi could be a real game-changer. World Hacks meets the women pioneering this approach and taking control of their own protection. More »
FEATURED STORY
May 04, 2017 | Economist (UK)
How to protect women against both HIV and pregnancy
A newly-developed vaginal ring releases small doses of drugs over a three-month period More »
FEATURED STORY
February 26, 2016 | The New York Times editorial
Helping Women in Africa Avoid H.I.V.
Now, women in the developing world have new hope. The results of two major studies in Africa that were released Monday show that a new device could help protect women against H.I.V. More »
Media Highlights
March 10, 2018 | FirstWord Pharma
Dapivirine Vaginal Ring Is Reducing Risk of HIV Infection Among Women in Serodiscordant Relationships: Presented at CROI
The HOPE study launched in August of 2016 as an extension of the phase 3 ASPIRE clinical trial. More »
March 09, 2018 | Healio / Infectious Disease News
Open-label studies show high uptake of vaginal ring for HIV prevention
“The data support the development of the ring as a potentially important new prevention option for women, who continue to bear the brunt of the epidemic and still lack a range of options that they... More »
March 08, 2018 | Medscape
HIV Incidence Drops Below 2% in Vaginal Ring Follow-ups
Women who used a dapivirine vaginal ring for HIV prevention were infected at a rate of less than 2%, according to interim data from the concurrent HOPE and DREAM extension trials. More »
March 08, 2018 | Contagion LIVE
Dapivirine Ring Shown to Reduce HIV-Risk in Women by 54%
The preliminary results have revealed that the reduction in the risk of HIV infection is even better in the HOPE trial than the other 2 trials, and women’s use of this new form of HIV protection is... More »
March 08, 2018 | Aidsmap
The vaginal ring: more HOPE to the DREAM? Higher adherence and better effectiveness seen in open-label ring studies
Two open-label, parallel studies of vaginal rings used to prevent HIV in women released interim results at the 25th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2018) in Boston... More »