Effect of herpes simplex suppression on incidence of HIV among women in Tanzania.

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Published in N Engl J Med on March 12, 2008

Authors

Deborah Watson-Jones1, Helen A Weiss, Mary Rusizoka, John Changalucha, Kathy Baisley, Kokugonza Mugeye, Clare Tanton, David Ross, Dean Everett, Tim Clayton, Rebecca Balira, Louise Knight, Ian Hambleton, Jerome Le Goff, Laurent Belec, Richard Hayes, HSV trial team, Steering and Data Monitoring Committees

Author Affiliations

1: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London. deborah.watson-jones@lshtm.ac.uk

Associated clinical trials:

Acyclovir Therapy for Genital Herpes Ulcers in HIV Negative African Women | NCT02053142

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