Tired of ‘dead end’ approach, herpes patients mobilize to demand government action
Federal health officials get an earful from herpes patients and researchers on the enormous toll and the host of unmet needs.
A medical student spoke emotionally about grappling with a diagnosis his classes told him little about. A young queer man took one test, got a different result on the next, and is now saving up the money needed for the most advanced diagnostics, which insurers rarely cover. A young woman tested positive, got little guidance from her doctor and found information on government sites that she interpreted as pushing abstinence.
“It’s the 21st century,” she said. “I think, as a society, we are kind of past that rhetoric.”
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