Sites that could help: useful links
The website links below may have some useful advice, but not all are accurate and you should beware both of any site that promises a ‘miracle cure’ and of all the scare stories which abound on the internet. Remember that our website exists specifically because so much misleading information has been put about.
- Your nearest clinic – list of sexual health clinics around t
he country. Type your postcode in the box. When you click to be seen ‘within three hours’ you may be offered a clinic a long way off. - Guidelines for doctors – for treating herpes simplex
above link takes you to the management guidelines written by the expert doctors at BASHH (the British Association of Sexual Health and HIV), updated October 2024 - BASHH also has a Patient Information Leaflet. Useful statement about asymptomatic shedding going down rapidly in first 6 months, etc.
- The New Zealand Herpes Foundation has good ideas and a great attitude.
- Video by ‘Come Curious’ We BOTH have HERPES I Come Curious These girls talk frankly about their herpes and give useful facts.
- The Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology have a patient information leaflet on childbirth and genital herpes. Or you can read the formal management guideline for doctors on genital herpes in pregnancy that the RCOG has written together with the herpes simplex experts at BASHH.
- Brook for young people – information on all aspects of sexual health
- BPAS contraception hub – All you want to know about contraception. British Pregnancy Advisory Service hs a new contraception hub.
- British Association of Dermatologists – leaflets on skin conditions including herpes simplex and shingles.
- We are a Pain UK member
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- Buy Genital Herpes Treatment Online from MedExpress
MedExpress is a registered internet pharmacy which offers treatments for patients who have been diagnosed with herpes simplex (genital herpes).
This e-chemist/doctor offers aciclovir and valaciclovir anti-viral medication for the treatment of current or future outbreaks as well as suppression courses.
MedExpress charges £19.99 for a single course of aciclovir (15 x 400mg tablets) and £49.99 for a suppression course of 3 months (168 x 400mg tablets).
The service is completely confidential and they offer discreet, next day delivery and they offer a lowest price guarantee.
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This page was updated 3-3-2025