Africa - Asia - Australia - Australia, New Zealand - Canada - China - Eastern Europe - Europe - High-income countries - International - Ireland - Latin America and the Caribbean - Low and middle income countries - Middle East, North Africa - Netherlands - New Zealand - Nigeria - Republic of Korea - South Africa - Sub-Saharan Africa - Taiwan - United Kingdom - United States - WHO - {Related topics}

Africa

• Journal of Infection
  • Herpes simplex virus type 1 epidemiology in Africa: Systematic review, meta-analyses, and meta-regressions [2019]

Asia

• Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific
  • Epidemiology of herpes simplex virus type 2 in Asia: A systematic review, meta-analysis, and meta-regression [2021]

Australia

• Australasian Society for HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexual Health Medicine
  • Genital herpes simplex virus (HSV)

• Queensland Health
  • Genital herpes

Australia, New Zealand

• Epidemiology & Infection
  • Epidemiology of herpes simplex virus type 1 and genital herpes in Australia and New Zealand: systematic review, meta-analyses and meta-regressions [2023]

Canada

• BC Centre for Disease Control
  • Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV)

• Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology
  • Genital herpes in Canada: Deciphering the hidden epidemic [2012]

• Frontiers in Public Health
  • Epidemiology of herpes simplex virus type 1 in Canada: systematic review, meta-analyses, and meta-regressions [2023]

• Public Health Agency of Canada
  • Genital herpes guide: Key information and resources

• Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
  • Genital Herpes: Gynaecological Aspects [2017]

China

• AIDS Research and Therapy
  • Prevalence of herpes simplex virus 2 among MSM in Mainland China: a systematic review and meta-synthesis [2022]

• Frontiers in Immunology
  • Disparities in burden of herpes simplex virus type 2 in China: systematic review, meta-analyses, and meta-regressions [2024]

Eastern Europe

• EuroSurveillance
  • Guidelines for the laboratory diagnosis of genital herpes in eastern European countries [2010]

Europe

• BMJ Global Health
  • Herpes simplex virus type 1 in Europe: systematic review, meta-analyses and meta-regressions [2020]

• European Association of Urology
  • Managing Genital Herpes: A Mini-review for Urologists from the European Association of Urology Guidelines Panel for Urological Infections [2026]

• International Union against Sexually Transmitted Infections
  • 2024 European guidelines for the management of genital herpes [2025]

High-income countries

• Sexually Transmitted Diseases
  • Epidemiology of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand: Systematic Review, Meta-Analyses, and Meta-Regressions [2022]

International

• BMJ Global Health
  • The global and regional burden of genital ulcer disease due to herpes simplex virus: a natural history modelling study [2020]

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Herpes simplex virus: global infection prevalence and incidence estimates, 2016 [2020]

• Current HIV/AIDS Reports
  • Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 Screening in Persons with and Without HIV: Evidence, Challenges, and Future Directions [2026]

• Journal of Infection
  • From HSV-2 to HSV-1: A change in the epidemiology of genital herpes [2025]

• Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • Global and regional estimates of the contribution of herpes simplex virus type 2 infection to HIV incidence: a population attributable fraction analysis using published epidemiological data [2020]

• Vaccine
  • Vaccine value profile for herpes simplex virus [2024]

Ireland

• Ireland's Health Services
  • Genital Herpes

Latin America and the Caribbean

• PLoS ONE
  • Herpes simplex virus type 1 epidemiology in Latin America and the Caribbean: Systematic review and meta-analytics [2019]

• Sexually Transmitted Infections
  • Epidemiology of herpes simplex virus type 2 in Latin America and the Caribbean: systematic review, meta-analyses and metaregressions [2021]

Low and middle income countries

• BMJ Global Health
  • Twenty years of herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) research in low-income and middle-income countries: systematic evaluation of progress made in addressing WHO prioritiesfor research in HSV-2 epidemiology and diagnostics [2024]

• PLoS Medicine
  • Estimated economic burden of genital herpes and HIV attributable to herpes simplex virus type 2 infections in 90 low- and middle-income countries: A modeling study [2022]

Middle East, North Africa

• Scientific Reports
  • Herpes simplex virus type 1 epidemiology in the Middle East and North Africa: systematic review, meta-analyses, and meta-regressions [2019]

Netherlands

• BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Herpes simplex virus type 1 and type 2 in the Netherlands: seroprevalence, risk factors and changes during a 12-year period [2016]

New Zealand

• New Zealand Herpes Foundation
  • Guidelines for the Management of Genital Herpes in Aotearoa New Zealand [2024]

• New Zealand Sexual Health Society
  • Herpes

Nigeria

• Pathogens and Global Health
  • Seroprevalence of herpes simplex virus types 1 and 2 in Nigeria: a systematic review and meta-analyses [2019]

Republic of Korea

• BMC Public Health
  • How place shapes genital herpes simplex distribution in South Korea: a Bayesian spatial analysis using National Health Insurance Service data [2025]

• Pathogens
  • Epidemiological Characteristics of HSV-1 and HSV-2 in 177,599 Patients Based on PCR Testing in South Korea (2018-2022) [2025]

South Africa

• EBioMedicine
  • The population impact of herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) vaccination on the incidence of HSV-2, HIV and genital ulcer disease in South Africa: a mathematical modelling study [2023]

• PLoS ONE
  • Prevalence and Incidence Estimation of HSV-2 by Two IgG ELISA Methods among South African Women at High Risk of HIV [2015]

Sub-Saharan Africa

• EClinicalMedicine
  • Epidemiology of herpes simplex virus type 2 in sub-Saharan Africa: Systematic review, meta-analyses, and meta-regressions [2021]

• Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
  • Herpes simplex virus type 2 in sub-Saharan Africa and the potential impact of helminth immune modulation [2024]

Taiwan

• PLoS ONE
  • Seroprevalence of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 and 2 in Taiwan and Risk Factor Analysis, 2007 [2015]

United Kingdom

• British Association for Sexual Health and HIV
  • British Association of Sexual Health and HIV UK national guideline for the management of anogenital herpes, 2024 [2024]

• Prescriber
  • Management of genital herpes: a guide for GPs [2018]

• Public Health England
  • Genital herpes

• WISDOM
  • Guidelines on the Management of Genital Herpes [2024]

United States

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  • Serological Screening for Genital Herpes: A Reaffirmation Evidence Update for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force [2023]

• American Family Physician
  • Genital Herpes: Rapid Evidence Review [2024]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Diagnosis and Management of Genital Herpes: Key Questions and Review of the Evidence for the 2021 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Sexually Transmitted Infections Treatment Guidelines [2022]
  • Herpes - STI Treatment Guidelines [2021]
  • Genital Herpes

• Open Forum Infectious Diseases
  • Analytic Characterization of the Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 Epidemic in the United States, 1950–2050 [2021]

• PLoS ONE
  • Characterizing herpes simplex virus type 1 and type 2 seroprevalence declines and epidemiological association in the United States [2019]

• StatPearls
  • Herpes Simplex Type 2
  • Acyclovir

• U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
  • Genital Herpes Infection: Serologic Screening [2023]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • WHO preferred product characteristics for herpes simplex virus vaccines [2019]
  • WHO guidelines for the treatment of Genital Herpes Simplex Virus [2016]
  • Herpes simplex virus: Fact sheet
  • Herpes Simplex Virus (Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals)

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