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There is no genital herpes cure. You’ll have to learn to live with it. But some simple changes to your lifestyle -- and to your attitude -- can make it easier to cope.

  1. 10 Ways to Reduce Risk of Transmission
  2. Telling Your Partner You Have Herpes
  3. What to Do if Your Partner Has Herpes
  4. Have I Been Infected, Too?
  5. Staying Healthy With Genital Herpes
  6. Potential Herpes Triggers
  7. Your Sex Life and Herpes
  8. Dating With Genital Herpes
  9. Herpes and Pregnancy
  10. HIV Risk With Herpes

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