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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2014
International Partnership for Microbicides, Inc., Silver Spring, MD (US);
Brid Devlin, Berwyn, PA (US);
Jonathon Daryll Holt, Durham, NC (US);
Andrew Nathan Brimer, Bethlehem, PA (US);
Jeremy Peter Nuttall, Newtown Square, PA (US);
Karl Malcolm, Belfast, GB;
Susan Margaret Fetherston, Belfast, GB;
Peter John James Boyd, Ballyclare, GB;
International Partnership for Microbicides, Inc., Silver Spring, MD (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides improved intravaginal drug delivery devices, i.e., intravaginal rings, useful for the prophylactic administration of dapivirine in combination with either an antimicrobial compound or a contraceptive to a human. The present invention also provides methods of blocking DNA polymerization by an HIV reverse transcriptase enzyme, methods of preventing HIV infection in a female human, methods of treating HIV infection in a female human, methods of preventing unintended pregnancy in a female human, and methods of preparing intravaginal rings.