Condoms offer moderate protection against herpes in both men and women, with consistent condom users having a thirty percent lower risk of herpes acquisition compared with those who never use condoms The virus cannot pass through a latex condom, but a condom's effectiveness is limited because it does not prevent skin contact or bodily fluid contact with the scrotum, anus, buttocks, upper thighs or area immediately surrounding the penis, all of which are susceptible to infection with and transmission of the virus.
Preventing contact with these areas during sex, in addition to wearing condom, should theoretically provide enhanced protection against herpes. The use of condoms or dental dams also limits the transmission of herpes from the genitals of one partner to the mouth of the other during oral sex. When one partner has a herpes infection and the other does not, the use of antiviral medication, such as valaciclovir, in conjunction with a condom, further decreases the chances of transmission to the uninfected partner.
Vaccines for herpes are undergoing trials. A replication-defective mutant virus has proved successful both in preventing herpes infections, and in combating the virus in already infected hosts, in animal models. It has been shown that the replication-defective vaccine induces strong HSV-2-specific antibody and T-cell responses; protects against challenge with a wild-type HSV-2 virus; greatly reduces the severity of recurrent disease; provides cross-protection against HSV-1, and renders the virus unable to revert to a virulent state or to become latent.
Antivirals may reduce asymptomatic shedding. The risk of transmission from mother to baby is highest if the mother becomes infected at around the time of delivery, but the risk falls to three percent if it is a recurrent infection, and is less than one percent if there are no visible lesions. To prevent neonatal infections, seronegative women are recommended to avoid unprotected oral genital contact with an HSV-1 seropositive partner and conventional sex with a partner having a genital infection during the last trimester of pregnancy.
A seronegative mother that contracts herpes at this time has up to a fifty seven percent chance of conveying the infection to her baby during childbirth, since insufficient time will have occurred for the generation and transfer of protective maternal antibodies before the birth of the child, whereas a woman seropositive for both HSV-1 and HSV-2 has a one to three percent chance of transmitting infection to her infant. Women that are seropositive for one type of herpes are only half as likely to transmit herpes as infected seronegative mothers.
Mothers infected with herpes are advised to avoid procedures that would cause trauma to the infant during birth and, should lesions be present, to elect caesarean section to reduce exposure of the child to infected secretions in the birth canal. The use of antiviral treatments limits herpes recurrence and shedding during childbirth, reducing the need for caesarean section. Acyclovir is the recommended antiviral for herpes suppressive therapy during the last months of pregnancy. The use of valaciclovir, while potentially improving compliance have less well determined safety in pregnancy.
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