| A safe and effective microbicide has not yet been found, but nearly a dozen microbicides have entered human testing. |
| The primary concern of microbicide advocacy is to expand research and development efforts. |
| Funding for microbicide research has been at very low levels compared to treatments and vaccines. |
| Two of the microbicide candidates appeared to increase the risk of HIV acquisition in women. |
| Treatment advocacy has worked to a very different timeframe as compared to vaccine and microbicide advocacy. |
| Some opposed tenofovir's use in a microbicide because they worried that it would encourage the emergence of such resistance. |
