The landscape for Herpes treatment and prevention is, while the are glimmers of hope, very ugly. There are no public health interventions to stop transmission and no accurate test to diagnose asymptomatic infection. The treatment pipeline is slim, improving – yet slim. And NIH is investing less than 10 million a year in clinical researchContinue reading “Help HCA ask for Federal Funding for Treatment and Prevention of HSV!”
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Herpes Cure Pipeline 2.0
Herpes Simplex Virus Cure Pipeline
Advocates Call on FDA to Remove Faulty Tests for Herpes
It is widely recognized among providers of STI screening that serology tests for Herpes Simplex Virus types 1 & 2 are highly inaccurate and often lead to false positives. So much so, that HSV is often not included in standard STI screening, despite it being the largest STI in America with no effective treatment orContinue reading “Advocates Call on FDA to Remove Faulty Tests for Herpes”