An Indian-American professor Mahua Choudhury was one among the group of researchers at Texas A&M University, who developed ‘super condom’ to prevent AIDS.
To increase the global use of condoms to prevent the spread of HIV virus, researchers have developed this new condom, named ‘super condom’. After a research of couple of years, the non-latex condom was invented. It contains antioxidants that can kill the HIV virus even after breaking. This revolutionary condom is made of an elastic polymer called ‘Hydrogel’.
This Super condom not only helps to fight HIV infection but also prevents unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, said Mahua Choudhury, who studied molecular Biology, bioPhysics and genetics in India before doing PhD in the US. He was also awarded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s “Grand Challenge in Global Health” grant.
Since its outbreak in 1981, AIDS killed 39 million people across the world.
