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Media resources

Since 1997, the AHMF has been producing and regularly updating a range of resources to assist health professionals with an interest in herpesviruses and their related conditions, as well as those people in the community who are affected by herpes.

The media have played an important role in the AHMF's awareness-raising activities. This page lists all the AHMF's resources targeted to the media.

Media releases

  • 20 August 2009
    Kissing is a Major Cause of Herpes

    Sydney, 14 August 2009 – Although many people don’t know it, kissing can give you herpes, and this can be caused by either Herpes Simplex Virus type 1 (HSV-1) or Herpes Simplex Virus type 2 (HSV-2).
  • 13 August 2009
    Australian survey to shed light on treating herpes “down under”

    Australians living with the nation’s second most common sexually transmitted infection (STI) are being urged to convey their experience and challenges by completing a new online study.
  • 13 August 2009
    Consumer Backgrounder on Genital Herpes

    Background information for people interested in genital herpes
  • 13 August 2009
    Profile: Professor Tony Cunningham

    Profile of Prof Tony Cunninham is in the attached PDF file
  • 01 June 2009
    AHMF launches online patient perspective study of genital herpes treatments

    The Australian Herpes Management Forum (AHMF) is calling for healthcare professionals to identify patients who have been diagnosed with and treated for genital herpes to participate in an online patient perspective study of herpes management and treatment.
  • 05 May 2008
    Suppression therapy reduces genital herpes outbreaks by 90%

    Antiviral therapy reduces risk of transmission by 50%
  • 01 October 2007
    Herpes Awareness Day media kit 2007

    The theme of Herpes Awareness Day in 2007 was “it’s out of sight, but not out of fashion”— meaning that although people with herpes may not be aware of symptoms, the virus is always present.
  • 02 July 2006
    Genital herpes in Australia: facts and statistics

    The attached information provides useful background information on genital herpes in Australia.
  • 01 May 2006
    New research into prevalence of genital herpes

    The first Australia-wide study confirms 1 in 8 Australians have genital herpes and reveals women are at higher risk of contracting Type 2 herpes infections.
  • 01 May 2006
    Women twice as likely to contract genital herpes as men

    Australian women are twice as likely as men to contract Type 2 herpes simplex virus (HSV-2). The reasons for this are not yet clear, but one explanation may be that the anatomies of women make them more susceptible to the infection.
  • 05 October 2005
    Genital herpes - how do you know?

    Tell-tale warning signs—and what you should do about them.
  • 05 October 2005
    Herpes - shhhh! Overcoming the social stigma

    October 5, 2005. Genital herpes is one of the two most common sexually transmitted infections in Australia and up to one in eight people are infected with it. Unfortunately, research from around the world shows herpes carries a social stigma and some patients with herpes suffer...
  • 05 October 2005
    Herpes is forever

    1 in 8 Australians has genital herpes; 70% don’t know they’re infected.
  • 05 October 2005
    Pregnancy and genital herpes – yes you can!

    October 5, 2005. One of the many fallacies surrounding genital herpes is that women cannot or should not become pregnant.
    According to Dr Joe Sasaduesz, Australian Herpes Management Forum spokesman and board member, there is no reason why women who have genital herpes...
  • 05 October 2005
    The history of herpes

    Herpes dates back to 2500BC

    October 5, 2005 – Herpes is not a manifestation of the sexual revolution of the sixties and seventies. The herpes virus, HSV, is documented to have been with us since at least 2500 BC. While available treatment and research has...

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