Randomised Controlled Trial Assessing the Impact of Genital Herpes Suppressive Therapy on HIV Shedding
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2005-07-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
Genital herpes is a long-life sexually transmitted diseases which infects a large proportion
of women in Africa. Its clinical symptoms are painful sores on the genitals, which heals
after a few days. HIV infection can worsen genital herpes. In turn, it is possible that
genital herpes increases the quantity of HIV secreted at the genital level in women infected
by the 2 viruses. This study is dedicated to verify this hypothesis.
Phase:
Phase 2
Details
Lead Sponsor:
French National Agency for Research on AIDS and Viral Hepatitis