2024 Herpes Stigma Conference Recordings

Watch the 2024 Herpes Stigma Conference Recordings – Free Access Now Available

The 2024 Herpes Stigma Conference, hosted by Something Positive for Positive People (SPFPP), brought together leaders in healthcare, mental health, sex education, and community advocacy to address how stigma around herpes affects individuals and institutions. Now, you can watch all four sessions from the virtual event—free and on demand.

Each presentation offers practical tools, expert insights, and real-world strategies for reducing herpes stigma and supporting people diagnosed with HSV. Whether you're a healthcare provider, therapist, educator, or someone living with herpes, these sessions offer powerful guidance and support.

🔹 Featured Sessions:

  • Herpes in Healthcare Settings
    Presented by Evelin Dacker, MD
    Explore how stigma shows up in clinical settings and what providers can do to create shame-free care environments.

  • Stigma in Mental Health Spaces
    Presented by Nikita Hamilton, LCSW
    Understand how stigma impacts mental health treatment, identity, and disclosure, and learn supportive approaches for therapists and peers.

  • Minimizing Stigma for Youth Educators
    Presented by Dakota Brame, MS Ed
    Tools and language for sex educators working with youth, with a focus on compassion, accuracy, and cultural sensitivity.

  • Insights from the 2024 Herpes Stigma Survey
    Presented by Courtney Brame, SPFPP Founder
    A data-backed look at how people living with herpes are impacted emotionally, socially, and medically—and what we can do to change that.

All videos are available for free and accessible to anyone looking to better understand herpes stigma and how to challenge it.

Conference flyer featuring Evelin Molina Dacker, promoting best practices for minimizing stigma in healthcare, including STI stigma, provider communication, and safer sex discussions. Includes website links for further information.
Advertisement for a presentation by Nikita Fernandes, Sex Therapist & Psychotherapist, titled 'Sexual Health is Mental Health' with topics on HSV+ clients, stigma impacts, and shifts in sex education. Includes website healingwithnikita.com and SPFPP conference link spfpp.org/conferences.
Flyer promoting "Stigma Minimizing Sex Education" by Dakota Ramppen, a relationship coach and sexuality educator. It includes presentation topics like STIgma Minimization, STARS for Youth - Values Exercise, and What’s Missing from Youth Sex Ed. Contact at getrealwithdakota.com. Event by "Something Positive for positive people" with more info at spfpp.org/conferences.
An informational image promoting a conference by Something Positive for positive people. It features a person in a white shirt and includes the conference title "The Symptoms of Stigma: Data Analysis 2023-2024 HSV Survey" by Courtney Brame. It lists presentation topics such as herpes symptoms and treatment, minimizing internalized stigma, and STI stigma in relationships and dating. The website link is www.spfpp.org/conferences.