Herpes Patients Are Dissatisfied With Their Healthcare ProvidersWhy and What Can Be Done?
According to recent surveys, healthcare providers have been failing their patients most of the time in terms of psychological management of genital herpes. Management of the disease needs to progress beyond prescribing drugs and into providing emotional support and education for patients with genital herpes. The American Social Health Association (ASHA) has developed the ASHA STD Counseling Model to help healthcare providers overcome barriers to counseling their patients in a clinical setting. If the model is followed, providers will be better able to view the disease from the patient’s perspective and include emotional counseling and referrals to additional information sources in their arsenal of disease management tools. Please note that this site is designed primarily as an information service on herpesvirus infections and AHF activities. We regret that we cannot give medical advice or referrals via this web site and we are not able to offer a medical question-and-answer service. If
