Information and support for people living with the herpes virus
Genital herpes and magazines and newspapers – what a combination. How have magazines and newspapers covered genital herpes stories over the years? “Must try harder” is the phrase that springs to mind. Late 1960s and early 1970s – a scientific affair The late 1960s and early 1970s were a time when scientific understanding of the [...]
If we look at the question of genital herpes and the media, what do we see? What are TV, magazines, music and the other media saying about this condition? Genital Herpes and the Media examines the question, and you may not like the answer. Read about how herpes is painted in the following media: Film, [...]
madison magazine are leading the way again with a fabulous article on STIs: SEX in our cities madison recently did a survey on sex and STIs and this follow up article explores some of the results. The most surprising (and scary!) fact is that 32% of respondents thought that the contraceptive pill offered protection against [...]
My interview as published in the Australian Doctor magazine: Jeannie May, 46, lives on the Gold Coast and is a divorced mother of two teenagers. She contracted genital herpes five years ago. I was quite ill with the flu and had severe fever symptoms, but it was when the blisters appeared that I had an [...]
I was interviewed for this article in the Sydney Morning Herald: Australians don pink ribbons for breast cancer and red noses for sudden infant death. But you won’t see ribbons or red noses marking tomorrow’s National Herpes Day. Herpes viruses are responsible for a range of common conditions including chickenpox, shingles, glandular fever, cold sores [...]
Herpes really is the hot topic at the moment. Here’s a quote from DOLLY magazine’s STI feature (August edition): Diary of an STI Test Now you’ve asked for one . . . what should you expect? Taylor, 18, has never had an STI test, despite being sexually active since she was 16 and having unprotected [...]
Last week there was the ‘Case Study’ in Woman’s Day magazine (see the Living Sphere in the media post); and this week I notice herpes get’s a mention in the Women’s Weekly. It’s featured in the ‘Oprah Special’ section, under the heading ’10 Really Good Sex Questions you’ll be glad someone else asked’. Quote: What’s [...]
Whoohoo! We made it! A herpes ‘real life’ story, and a mention for Living Sphere in a national women’s magazine. A HUGE thank you to Kim for allowing them to use her story, to Sarah for liaising with the mag, to GSK for providing the factual stuff. . . and to all the members of [...]
Whoohoo! We made it! A herpes ‘real life’ story, and a mention for Living Sphere in a national women’s magazine. A HUGE thank you to Kim for allowing them to use her story, to Sarah for liaising with the mag, to GSK for providing the factual stuff. . . and all you guys for being [...]
* This article was published in the ‘Australian Health Consumer,’ 2003, Issue 1 and on ‘Femail Magazine, Empowering Every Woman’ Download the ‘Dating and the H Bomb’ PDF here Dating and the H Bomb! by Jeannie May In this new era of rampant STIs a new dating code is emerging to complicate the already muddy [...]
Check out the extract from the dating chapter of the Living Sphere Guide to Herpes here
Read more about the Living Sphere Guide to Herpes here
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