A Bangladeshi scientist Dr MA Hasan has invented AIDS preventive drug named ‘DQX Combi Gel’, reducing the HIV risk. Addressing a Press conference at the National Press Club in the city Physician Dr MA Hasan on Monday disclosed his invention of the new drug to reduce HIV risk upto 90 per cent, using it as a complementary of condom.
MA Hasan, also President and Chief Scientist of the Allergy Asthma Environmental Research and Skin Care Institute (AAERSCI) in the country said it can provide more than 50 per cent protection when used along with other barrier like cervical cap/diaphragm and with condom it would provide almost 90 per cent protection. “Normally condom efficacy is 69 per cent overall,” he mentioned.
“DQX combi gel is combination of a drug like anthraquinone and a viricidal of a plant origin, which could be used locally on the female partner before coitus,” he elaborated.
He said other suitable viricidal like anthraquinones or dextran sulfate can prevent HIV transmission when they are used locally. Anthraquinone inhibits HIV replication by preventing viral fusion.
Hasan observed certain relations of HIV with global warming, excess carbon dioxide emission, UV radiation and ecological changes.
