Portacath – a small medical device fitted under the skin that allows injected drugs to have a more direct route to where they are needed.
Glossary
Selected words and phrases
microbicide – a gel that may protect against infection.In reference to HIV, this is usually referring to a gel that could be applied before sex. In 2010 a study called Caprisa 004 provided the first evidence that a microbicide (in this case a gel containing the HIV drug tenofovir) might protect against HIV infection.
foetoplacental circulation is the blood supply in the foetus and placenta.
BD (or bid) – a short hand term for medication dosing that means ‘twice-daily’.
type II diabetes mellitus (T2DM) – an illness that usually affect adults (previously called adult-onset diabetes), when glucose levels increase because the body does not produce enough insulin or does not respond well to insulin.