How it started
Some time ago, during a routine exam, I was diagnosed with HSV-2. At first I did not understand all the implications. Then came the real questions: how it would affect my intimate life, my bonds, how I would talk about this with anyone. Loneliness and stigma pushed me to look for others going through the same. This community was born from that.
Mission
Create a safe space to share experiences, fears and progress. Bring together reliable medical information about prevention, treatment and management. Facilitate connections between people who share the experience, without judgment.
2026, rewritten
This site was born as "Vivir con Herpes Chile" in 2024 as a simple landing with a WhatsApp and Facebook group. In 2026 it was rebuilt from scratch with a new editorial system: every clinical claim with verifiable source, content in three languages, structured knowledge base, community without real names. Same mission: to accompany.
Authorship and voice
Written by the editorial team of Living with HSV, led by Marcelo. Authorship is pseudonymous out of respect for the privacy of the people behind the project. Clinical information comes from verifiable sources: WHO, CDC, NIH, ECDC, Cochrane, Mayo Clinic, ASHA and peer-reviewed literature.
Editorial methodology
Each clinical article is reviewed every six months. No commercial sponsorship. No Google Analytics or tracking. No user profiling. Sources are centralized in a system anyone can inspect at /llms.txt and /rag-index.json.
