Here's every in-person herpes support group I can verify is still active in Ohioas of 2026. If you're newly diagnosed and looking for a room of other people who get it, this is your shortlist.
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Book a discovery callThe ASHA HELP network covered Ohiofor years. Below is every chapter I've been able to document, with sources. If any of these still meet and I've marked them defunct in error, tell me on the group page and I'll update the record.
Ohio Friends Support for Herpes and HPV was the renamed continuation of the older Ohio Support HELP chapter in Columbus that appeared in ASHA's 2008 HELP roster at (614) 599-1325. The renamed group ran out of (614) 526-4461 with ohiofriends.org as its public face and was on ASHA's 2015 directory snapshot. By 2026 the ohiofriends.org domain is dead and the group is no longer in the ASHA 2026 directory. If you're in central Ohio, the waitlist below is the active option. There's no other in-person Ohio chapter I can verify is still running.
One of the few HELP chapters to also formally serve the HPV-positive community. Email contact severed when Prodigy.net shut down in 2013.
Hosted at the Wright State University Ellis Institute. one of the few HELP chapters embedded in a university institute.
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