EVALUATION OF A 24 HOUR MICROBICIDE VAGINAL SUPPOSITORY

Not Available With the increase threat of chemical and biological warfare (CBW), each and every shelter should have all the features to protect the troops from CBW. The one and only reason that the troops are not protected from CBW unconditionally as a doctrine, is cost. The high cost resulting from difficult fabrication, low durability, and inadequate fire resistance, weight and bulk problems defined in the solicitation. To provide adequate protect against chemical warfare agents (CWA) requires a chemically inert and impermeable film. The barrier film must be inert to withstand absorption of and degradation by the chemical threat. Inertness of the barrier it is also necessary to allow simple decontamination procedures. Many low cost films are both flammable and difficult to decontaminate. While many film materials are impermeable, only a few fluorinated films will provide all the properties required. Most fluorinated resins suitable for film fabrication are not tough enough for the application, mainly due to their high elastic modulus, which makes those films overly stiff with low elongation, this property tends to reduce their resistance to mechanical punishment. Designing a CBW protective fabric that will result in low life cycle cost shelter will increase the likelihood of such a fabric to be incorporated into each and every military shelter, thus bringing about the economy of scale required to reduce the cost even further. A generic solution for applying an CB impermeable resi