What Percent Of People Around The World Have Herpes

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U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Understanding Genital Herpes

Overview Cause Transmission Symptoms Diagnosis Treatment Prevention Complications Overview Genital herpes is a sexually transmitted infection (STI). According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in the United States, one of every five teenagers and adults is infected with genital herpes. Women are more commonly infected than men and it is estimated that one of every four women has herpes. Although at least 45 million...

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pakistan 10 and 3 percent HBV and HCV

Hi doctor Dieterich'sIn pakistan 10 and 3-7 percent people suffer from HBV and HCV respectively as from research done in Pakistan. For HIV officially 1400 HIV positive are reported.I would ask you as route of transmission is same for all three...

Response from Douglas T. Dieterich, M.D.

New York University, School of Medicine

Dear Dr Imran,Hepatitis B and HIV are both classic sexually transmitted diseases and are transmitted in the same way. HIV and HCV are both transmitted parenterally through IV drug use, iatrogenically, through re-used needles, through tattoos, body... Read more »

Are the 3 percent people with bad immune systems?

Hi Shannon,Are the people that take longer than 3 months or up to 6 months people with weakened or bad immune systems? I got tested neg. at 4 months. What should I do now?...

Response from Shannon Southall

Rocky Mountain CARES

Hiyes they are. As long as there has been no exposure during this 4 months than you are negative.Be well and stay safe, Shannon... Read more »

Herpes I = Herpes II

I have herpes I (cold sores.) I've been told that if you have Herpes I you are not infected with Herpes II (genital herpes.) Is that true? Is it possible to have both?...

Response from Ryan M. Kull, C.S.W

Columbia University's Health & Related Services

It is true that you can be infected with both HSV (herpes simplex virus) I and HSV II. Almost 90 percent of Americans are infected with HSV-1 (the type that typically causes cold sores/fever blisters around the mouth), mostly through non-sexual... Read more »

What percent get problems?

Hi Dr:Have there been any studies indicating what percentage of persons with Hiv get lipo, both on and off meds? What about persons on keletra. I started it one mont ago--treatment naive. Please help if you can. ...

Response from Graeme Moyle, M.D.

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital

Several studies have tried to address this. In a german study 30% of people on treatment (mainly PIs and d4T) had lipodystrophy at 3 years. In Gilead 903 13% of d4T/3TC/Efavirenz and 1% of tenofovir/3TC/efavirenz recipients have lipodystrophy, as... Read more »

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absolutes vs. percents

Posted by PAUL, 3 Replies

Help... I'm totally confused about the difference between absolute numbers and the %. I just found out that my cd4 cout was 28% or 392. How is the percent more meaningful than the absolute number? I just don't get this... I made the original posting... Read more »

Herpes Window

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

I know this is slightly out of place, but there is no other good forum for sexually transmitted diseases that I could find. For those of you worried about obtaining herpes (I see a lot of questions about unprotected oral sex), the window period for... Read more »

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Hello everyone! I am in a situation in witch any comments are VERY welcome.I've been worried and stressed about hiv for about 4 months now...and things are getting strange.my backround is:I am a white male in my early 20's.I have a small genitil... Read more »

searching for vaccine will it help people already?

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