Episodic therapy for genital herpes in sub-saharan Africa: a pooled analysis from three randomized controlled trials.

A randomized controlled trial in South Africa found a beneficial effect of acyclovir on genital ulcer healing, but no effect was seen in trials in Ghana, Central African Republic and Malawi. The aim of this paper is to assess whether the variation in impact of acyclovir on ulcer healing in these tri...

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Main Authors: Helen A Weiss, Gabriela Paz Bailey, Sam Phiri, Gerard Gresenguet, Jerome LeGoff, Jacques Pepin, David A Lewis, Laurent Belec, Irving F Hoffman, William C Miller, Philippe Mayaud
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3143155?pdf=render