Author: Marian Nicholson

Rational Vaccines has been perfecting a therapeutic (treatment) and vaccine for herpes simplex type 1 and type 2 for many years. At last, it is available at facilities in Munich, Germany and Roatan, Honduras. However this is a private treatment and the cost is likely to be very high.

The development of this therapeutic vaccine has been reported in our News and Stories column https://herpes.org.uk/new-vaccine/  on previous occasions.   The expected protocol is that a patient will have three injections, one month apart. From the previous trial, we can say that on average any improvement will not be apparent until two weeks after the second dose, when the immune response is properly boosted.

Now, the RVX treatment is available to private patients at LVATE medical centre in Munich, and at the GARM clinic, in Prospera, Roatan, Honduras. As well as the cost of the injections, you will have to travel to the clinic for the three jabs.

For more information please contact:

• In Munich, Dr Kroehle: [email protected] or a phone number +49172 1719789 to schedule an appointment or preparation call. And her assistant is also available through WhatsApp.
• In Honduras, Mayra :  [email protected]  

If you do get this treatment, it would be good if you would consent to have the treatment results data collected (totally anonymously) to help Rational Vaccine to ascertain just how effective this therapeutic vaccine could be at preventing outbreaks. This will help when it comes to getting governments to adopt it as a treatment.

Don’t hold your breath for this vaccine to be widely available. That is in the future.

Email the HVA at [email protected] for any further details, as they become available.

Below:
Agustin, the CEO of Rational Vaccines and Dr William Halford, the inventor:

Published 14 January 2026

Short answer: nothing

Long answer:

Until you have symptoms, you are considered not to have the virus. There is no test – apart from one place in the USA – that is suitable for people who are do not have visible sores, ulcers or lesions.

Dr Jan Clarke’s statements: she is a top sexual health consultant. She ran the “patient and public panel” for the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH) for years. She says:

Since 2020, everyone can have free prescriptions for treatments for all STIs and HIV. (But also see last paragraph below.)

Make sure any antiviral prescription from a GP is endorsed with ‘FS.’ There is no need for the GP to write anything else on it.

Summer 2025:  SPHERE magazine is 16 pages in A4 print version, and the e-version is in large text, single column, for easy reading on a screen.

Summer issue includes invitation to the new Emotional Strength empowerment group – second Thursday of the months – and much more…

Continue reading Herpes information, when you subscribe

The bad news

For many years we have been reporting on the research that finds that people with facial infection who also have a variant of the APOE4 gene are more likely than others to develop Alzheimer’s disease. (This is not relevant if you have it genitally. And people with genital infection are very unlikely to ever catch a new facial infection.) Only a tiny number of people have this gene variant – and anyway it is only ‘more likely to’ not ‘will’ develop.

A new report, paid for by a grant from the World Health Organisation, finds that one in 5 of the world’s population has genital herpes.

This is an estimate based on studies in countries around the world. It is an update on the study published in 2016 using improved data. The authors have broken down the data into continents/WHO regions. The highest rate is in Africa and the Western Pacific Region. Overall, over 900 million people have genital infection – and many more have facial infection.

You wait for years for a herpes vaccine trial to be run in the UK and then two turn up at once.

There is one other ‘good’ herpes organisation, apart from ours and it has award winning videos about herpes… The New Zealand Herpes Foundation has just issued a series of videos. They are GREAT.

Nigel Scott, HVA trustee, reports: