Herpes medication does not reduce risk of HIV transmission, UW-led international study finds
Thursday, January 21, 2010 - 08:14
in Health & Medicine
A five-year international multi-center clinical trial has found that acyclovir, a drug widely used as a safe and effective treatment taken twice daily to suppress herpes simplex virus-2 (HSV-2), which is the most common cause of genital herpes, does not reduce the risk of HIV transmission when taken by people infected with both HIV and HSV-2.