Effect of HSV-2 serostatus on the acquisition of HIV by young men: results of a longitudinal study conducted in Orange Farm (South Africa) Joelle Sobngwi - Tambekou jtambekou@yahoo.fr INSERM U687, Villejuif, France Dirk Taljaard dirk@progressus.co.za Progressus, Johannesburg, South Africa Pascale Lissouba Pascale.lissouba@inserm.fr INSERM U687, Villejuif. France Zarca Kevin kevin.zarca @inserm.fr INSERM U687, Villejuif, France Adrian Puren adrianp@nicd.ac.za National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa Emmanuel Lagarde emmanuel.lagarde@isped.u- bordeaux2.fr INSERM U593, Bordeaux, France Bertran Auvert bertran.auvert@uvsq.fr INSERM U687, Villejuif, France Assistance Publique- Hôpitaux de Paris, Boulogne, France University of Versailles, France Running head: HSV-2 and HIV acquisition in Orange Farm. Word count (abstract): 199 Word count (text): 2954 Potential conflicts of interest None reported. Financial support ANRS grant 1265 (France), NICD (South Africa), Gates Foundation (USA) grant 33759, INSERM (France), SACEMA (South Africa). Conference Presented in part: 16th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Sexually Transmitted Diseases Research, abstract TO-704. Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 10-13, 2005. Corresponding author Prof. Bertran Auvert, INSERM U687, 16 avenue Paul Vaillant-Couturier, 94804 Villejuif, France (Bertran.auvert@uvsq.fr) Contributions JT and BA analyzed the data and wrote the first draft. DT organized the collection of the samples. AP analyzed the samples. All authors contributed to the writing. inserm-00375883, version 1 - 16 Apr 2009 Author manuscript, published in "The Journal of Infectious Diseases 2009;199(7):958-64" DOI : 10.1086/597208