Background. Herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) reactivations are associated with increased HIV load, but whether HSV-2 coinfection accelerates HIV disease is unclear. We compared rates of CD4 count ...
Background: Herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) is an important cause of genital ulcers and can increase the risk for human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) transmission. Our objective was to ...
A combination drug used to treat and prevent HIV -- Truvada -- may have an additional benefit: lowering the risk of a genital herpes infection, a new study suggests. Researchers found that African ...
Prevention—what doesn’t work? In a session entitled “Status of the U.S. HIV/AIDS Epidemic: Is It Changing and If Not, Why Not?” Harold Jaffe, MD, former head of the CDC, discussed a not-yet-published ...
First-in-human study aims to evaluate the safety and immunogenicity of prophylactic herpes virus vaccine candidate BNT163 BNT163 is the first candidate from BioNTech’s infectious disease mRNA vaccine ...