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WOMEN will get the power to protect themselves against AIDS, if the World Health Organisation has its way. Encouraging men to use condoms, it has decided, is not enough. They work, but many men dislike them; and women, especially very young ones, often lack the se ....

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.... or other methods of use might prove better. For any product to be acceptable, says Eka Esu-Williams, the Nigerian president of the Society for Women and , it must be possible to separate the spermicidal or contraceptive function from that of killing harmful micro-organisms such as HIV. In third-world countries, many women (and still more men) value protection against AIDS, but not against procreation. WHO could add, though it does not, that one of the men, ecclesiastically speaking, could be the pope. Why has it taken more than a decade of AIDS to get serious attention paid to a form of protection that sounds so simple? One reason is that micro ....