Green Tea Ingredient Blocks HIV Infection, Heinrich-Pette Institute for Experimental Virology and Immunology Study

WebMD -- May 18, 2009 -- Green tea may be the key to effective anti- HIV vaginal gels, new studies suggest. Triggering the new studies was the recent finding that semen contains a factor -- dubbed semen-derived enhancer of virus infection (SEVI) -- that escorts HIV to the front door of the cells it likes to infect.

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