Having genital herpes can enhance the risk of being infected with HIV (virus), the virus that causes AIDS, and it can cause serious disease for people living with HIV (human immunodeficiency virus).
Persons who have genital herpes infection or sore are more likely to be infected with HIV at the time of sexual intercourse. When you develop or occur a sore or infection, the immune system tries to heal or treat it, so there are numerous immune cells concentrated in that spot. Those are the cell or tissues that HIV virus infects. If HIV (virus) in semen, vaginal fluid, or blood comes in touch with a herpes sore, the risk for infection is greater.
It is more difficult to treat or resolve genital herpes if you also suffered from HIV virus. Greater amount of medication doses of antiviral drugs are often needed to treat herpes in people with HIV. Also, many patients with HIV have strains of the herpes virus that are resistant to treatment with the standard antiviral medications.
If you take antiviral medication for gential herpes and the treatment is not functioning, you healthcare provider can test resistant, there are other possible treatment options, such as: the drugs foscarnet and cidofovir.
If you have HIV, ask your healthcare expert if you should be tested for gentile herpes. If you already know that you have herpes and HIV disease, consult a treatment option with your best healthcare professional.
