About half a billion people worldwide are living with genital herpes, and several billion have an oral herpes infection, new estimates show, highlighting the need to improve awareness and scale up services to prevent and treat herpes.
About 13% of the world’s population aged 15 to 49 years were living with herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) infection in 2016, the latest year for which data is available.
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HSV-2几乎完全通过性传播，会导致生殖器疱疹。
HSV-2 is almost exclusively sexually transmitted, causing genital herpes.
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在多达三分之一的感染者中，感染会导致生殖器溃疡反复发作，而且往往很痛苦。
Infection can lead to recurring, often painful, genital sores in up to a third of people infected.
Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) is mainly transmitted by oral to oral contact to cause oral herpes infection – sometimes leading to painful sores in or around the mouth (“cold sores”).
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然而，HSV-1也可以通过口交传播到生殖器区域，导致生殖器疱疹。
However, HSV-1 can also be transmitted to the genital area through oral sex, causing genital herpes.
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2016年，全球0至49岁人口中约有67%感染了HSV-1病毒——估计有37亿人。
Around 67% of the world’s population aged 0 to 49 had HSV-1 infection in 2016 – an estimated 3.7 billion people.
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这些感染大多是口腔感染；
Most of these infections were oral; however, between 122 million to 192 million people were estimated to have genital HSV-1 infection.
Genital herpes is a substantial health concern worldwide – beyond the potential pain and discomfort suffered by people living with the infection, the associated social consequences can have a profound effect on sexual and reproductive health” says Dr Ian Askew, Director of the Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research at the World Health Organization (WHO).