Living with HSV
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Learn together. With pseudonyms, with respect, with sources.
Newly diagnosed
The first 48 hours
A guide so you can breathe before googling everything. What to do, what can wait.
Living with HSV
Day to day
Outbreaks, antivirals, known triggers. Daily management without drama.
Partner, family, friend
How to support
What to say, what not to say. Data so the topic stays calm.
Aligned professional
Sourced library
WHO, CDC, NIH, ECDC, Cochrane. Glossary and referral materials.
Take weight off the diagnosis
2 of 3
adults worldwide live with HSV-1.
Approximately 520 million people aged 15 to 49 live with HSV-2. Most have no clear symptoms. When they do, symptoms are manageable.
WHO, 2025 · Looker et al., Lancet ID, 2020
WHO · December 2024 · ages 15 to 49
- 520 M
live with HSV-2.
≈ 13% of young adults worldwide.
- 376 M
live with genital HSV-1.
Oral HSV-1 is even more widespread.
- 1 in 5
has genital herpes.
846 million people in total.
Living with this is the norm, not the exception. Most have no clear symptoms, and when they do, they are manageable.
who.int · Dec 11, 2024 ↗After the diagnosis, what helped most was talking with people who had been through it. I built this site to bring that together with sourced information, no real names.
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