Clinicians
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Live and Love Short Film Competition Winners Announced Congratulations to the winner of the Live & Love Herpes Short Film Competition. Ah! Real Herpes! has taken the $10,000 judges choice award. |
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Live and Love: A Short Film Competition about Herpes Make a 30 second film about HSV for a chance to win $30,000 in the AHMF's Live & Love short film competition. |
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AHMF research to be presented internationally In 2007, the AHMF conducted an online survey to determine how many people were at risk of having herpes. The results are about to be presented to a wide international audience. |
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Two-day treatment course for genital herpes A new two-day course of famciclovir (available in Australia as Famvir) has been licensed for treating outbreaks of genital herpes. The new course consists of a single 500mg dose, followed by three doses of 250mg. |
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2008 travel scholarship winner announced Winner of the 2008 AHMF Travel Scholarship is Dr Jonathon Howard. Dr Howard will be presenting his research: Investigation of the role of CMV and other herpesvirus in congenital infections and stillbirth at the International Herpesvirus Workshop in Ithaca, New York from July 25th to 31st 2009. |
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A new approach to genital herpes treatment A two day course of famciclovir can effectively treat outbreaks of genital herpes. The AHMF has recently published guidelines on the new two day genital herpes treatment course. |
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How to take a swab for herpes The AHMF has released a six minute video demonstrating correct technique for taking diagnostic swabs for herpes. |
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Online survey helps determine those likely to have herpes 36 per cent of survey participants found to be at high risk of contracting the virus. |
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DVDs Following the 2006 and 2007 educational forums, the AHMF produced DVDs of the forum proceedings. The physical DVDs are no longer available for distribution, but you can download the files to burn your own DVD. |
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Clinical education Since 1997 the AHMF has produced a range of educational resources for Australian clinicians, doctors, health and scientific professionals. Our range of resources has grown from a set of printed management guidelines to educational forums, multimedia presentations and our own original research. |
