Randomised Controlled Trial Assessing the Impact of Genital Herpes Suppressive Therapy on HIV Shedding

Category Primary study
Registry of Trialsclinicaltrials.gov
Year 2004
Genital herpes is a long-life sexually transmitted diseases which infects a large proportion of women in Africa. Its clinical symptoms are painful sores on the genitals, which heals after a few days. HIV infection can worsen genital herpes. In turn, it is possible that genital herpes increases the quantity of HIV secreted at the genital level in women infected by the 2 viruses. This study is dedicated to verify this hypothesis.
Epistemonikos ID: 48116b42641723602c76a3f5483c745301e1b061
First added on: Mar 23, 2020