Sentence examples for prophylactic from inspiring English sources

There are alternatives, such as bed nets and prophylactic drugs, but limitations of cost, user acceptance and infrastructure mean that they offer no easy fix.There are, however, three useful steps against DDT that the treaty negotiators could agree on.

In geopolitics, as in life, the best medicine is prophylactic.

It had been administered as a prophylactic against the recurrence of Hodgkin's lymphoma (itself treated with chemotherapy) but a growing body of research suggests that can lead to early-onset coronary ailments.

AT BEIJING'S international airport, a parting couple hug and press their mask-covered mouths together in a prophylactic kiss.

It is designed to mimic a mature HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa which it did rather well when the researchers tested its output against data from Zambia, a country in which the epidemic has remained stable for a decade.Writing in PLoS Medicine's sister journal, PLoS ONE, Dr Abbas and Dr Mellors describe what happened when they added prophylactic anti-retroviral drugs to the model.

The benefits of NIH research are often extremely diffuse: three NIH research projects discovered the breast-cancer genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 and the effectiveness of prophylactic mastectomy, but few people riveted by Angelina Jolie's decision this spring thought "thank God for NIH peer-reviewed grants!" People are aware that they want to pay lower taxes, and hence that they want a smaller government.

Prophylactic drug treatment protects only for as long as the drugs stay in the body which is a few weeks (and explains the need for three rounds of treatment).

But drugs exist to suppress herpes and two trials one on the risk of becoming infected and one on the risk of transmitting HIV are expected to report next year and the year after.A third female-friendly technology is prophylactic drug use (although men could benefit, too).