The Latest Defence Against Aids: Lime Juice

If concentrated enough, lime and lemon juice kill the HIV virus and therefore "could be potent weapons in the fight against Aids in the developing world", according to a report on National Geographic. It quotes a reproductive biologist at Australia's University of Melbourne, Roger Short, as saying "in the supermarkets of Cape Town you [can] get five large lemons for the price of one condom". The 24.5 million people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa (source: UN Aids 2006 report) are evidence that existing Aids campaigns aren't working. But it's hard to believe that a man who's not willing to wear a condom could be persuaded apply concentrated lime juice!

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See Also
• What Married African Women Need to Fight Aids by Melinda Gates in Newsweek.