San Antonio H Friends
ActiveLocation: San Antonio, Texas
Venue: Distributed across San Antonio area
Meets: Meetup-organized events
Cost: free
Herpes support groups in Texas
Last updated May 19, 2026
Here's every in-person herpes support group I can verify is still active in Texasas of 2026. If you're newly diagnosed and looking for a room of other people who get it, this is your shortlist.
Active groups in Texas
Clear Lake Texas H Friends
ActiveLocation: Houston, Texas
Venue: Clear Lake area (greater Houston)
Meets: Meetup-organized events
Cost: free
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The history: groups that used to meet in Texas
The ASHA HELP network covered Texasfor 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.
Houston HELP. Houston
Houston HELP ran out of (866) 841-9139 x2551 with houstonhelp.org as its public face and was one of the three Texas ASHA HELP chapters at the 2008 network peak (alongside Austin HELP and North Texas HELP in Arlington). By 2026 the website is dead and there's no ASHA-listed in-person Houston group. The Clear Lake Texas H Friends entry above is the modern indie Meetup-era successor for the southeast Houston metro. If you're in greater Houston and looking for the structured peer-sharing format the original HELP chapter ran, the waitlist below is how I'll know to launch one.
Timeline
Austin HELP. Austin
Austin HELP was one of the three Texas ASHA HELP chapters at the 2008 network peak, running out of (512) 247-5551 with austinhelp.org as its early public face. By 2015 the chapter had migrated to a Yahoo Group, which was the digital home a lot of HELP chapters used until Yahoo Groups closed and deleted member data on December 15, 2020. The austinhelp.org domain still resolves in 2026 but returns an empty placeholder. If you're in central Texas and you find a current Austin-area listing on Meetup, that's the indie successor energy; otherwise the waitlist below is the active option I can offer.
Timeline
- 2008-07Listed in ASHA HELP roster with active website [source]
- 2015-02Listed in ASHA roster but pointing at Austin HELP Yahoo Group as primary contact [source]
- 2020-12-15Yahoo Groups shutdown deleted Austin HELP's Yahoo Group, severing the primary 2015-era contact channel [source]
- 2026-05-19austinhelp.org returns an empty page; no current presence found [source]
- 2020-12-15Yahoo Groups closed and deleted all member data. Austin HELP's 2015-era Yahoo Group home went dark in the same shutdown that broke San Antonio HELP, Vancouver HELP, and other Yahoo-Group-anchored chapters. [source]
North Texas HELP. Arlington
Was the only HELP chapter serving the Dallas-Fort Worth metro. The metro still shows steady search interest for an in-person herpes support group, but no current option is publicly listed.
Timeline
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