We often hear headlines about breakthrough discoveries and promising new therapies for herpes — only to hear nothing more about them months or even years later. Why do so manyContinueContinue reading “From Discovery to Cure: Understanding the Complex Path of Antiherpetic Drug Development”
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Year-End Giving | Research Is Moving Us Closer to a Cure
For decades, people living with herpes have been told to “just live with it.” But science is proving that answer is no longer acceptable. Thanks to growing research momentum —ContinueContinue reading “Year-End Giving | Research Is Moving Us Closer to a Cure”
🚨 Big News in Herpes Research: Promising Phase 1b Results from Assembly Biosciences 🚨
There’s major progress happening in the fight against HSV-2. Assembly Biosciences (ASMB) has reported very promising interim results from two Phase 1b clinical studies testing their new investigational treatments forContinueContinue reading “🚨 Big News in Herpes Research: Promising Phase 1b Results from Assembly Biosciences 🚨”
Giving Tuesday
This #GivingTuesday, we’re fighting stigma and pushing for real progress toward an HSV cure. Herpes affects billions, yet cure-focused research remains severely underfunded. A cure isn’t impossible — it’s overdue.ContinueContinue reading “Giving Tuesday”
Herpes Cure Advocacy Makes Push for Neonatal Herpes as Reportable Condition
Herpes Cure Advocacy is advocating to make the neonatal herpes infection reportable via a recommendation from the Committee of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE). Neonatal herpes is a rare disease thatContinueContinue reading ” Herpes Cure Advocacy Makes Push for Neonatal Herpes as Reportable Condition”
Applications Open for HCA Board of Directors
Herpes Cure Advocacy Seeks Volunteer Members for Board of Directors Herpes Cure Advocacy (HCA) is issuing a call for individuals to serve on its Board of Directors. We are seekingContinueContinue reading “Applications Open for HCA Board of Directors”
Herpes Cure Advocacy Attends the 2025 STI & HIV World Congress
Montréal, Canada This year, members of Herpes Cure Advocacy attended the STI & HIV World Congress in Montréal, Canada — a global gathering of researchers, clinicians, public health leaders, andContinueContinue reading “Herpes Cure Advocacy Attends the 2025 STI & HIV World Congress”
CRISPR and Herpes
A tool to edit herpes out of the genome. Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats CRISPR is an exciting new tool that scientists have used to edit genomes. It wasContinueContinue reading “CRISPR and Herpes”
New Gilead-Funded Study Supports Hypothesis that HSV-1 Significantly Increases Alzheimer’s Disease Risk
Here are our key takeaways from the study “Association between herpes simplex virus type 1 and the risk of Alzheimer’s disease: a retrospective case–control study” published in BMJ Open onContinueContinue reading “New Gilead-Funded Study Supports Hypothesis that HSV-1 Significantly Increases Alzheimer’s Disease Risk”
Viral Latency & Triggers: Beyond the Basics
A deep dive into how HSV hides in the nervous system and what emerging research says about reactivation. How Herpes Hides Step 1: Sneak Past our Defenses The herpes virusContinueContinue reading “Viral Latency & Triggers: Beyond the Basics”