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Yoshi2me is a volunteer online patient advocate that has been helping people with herpes since 1997. The support and help that is offered is strictly based on personal experiences and is NEVER intended or assumed to ever take the place of your personal healthcare provider or healthcare clinic. Yoshi2me has absolutely NOTHING to do with ANY pharmaceutical company that is responsible for making any of the clinically proven herpes antivirals. Any discussion about clinically proven herpes antivirals OR over the counter treatments is strictly for informational purposes and should never be taken as fact OR replaced by your own doctor’s recommendations. Any advertisement posted on any Yoshi2me web pages, blogs, or message boards should be looked at as only that: AN ADVERTISEMENT. Just because you see it posted doesn’t mean Yoshi2me endorses the product in the ad and it doesn’t mean that Yoshi2me thinks you should try the products that are advertised on Yoshi2me.

Diagnosis on the Internet is not Possible!

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H-Pal Program

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Yoshi2me reserves the right to do the following: Remove communications which are abusive, illegal, and disruptive or that otherwise fail to conform to these Terms and Conditions. Terminate a user's access to any or all Public Areas and/or the Yoshi2me Site upon any breach of these Terms and Conditions. Monitor, edit, or disclose any communication in the Public Areas. Edit or delete any communications posted on Yoshi2me, regardless of whether such communications violate these standards.

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There are organizations that would like you to believe that Yoshi2me and the Social Support Networking Alliance (SSNA) is a sponsor, partner or business associate of their company. Yoshi2me is not a sponsor, partner or business associate of any online business or company Unless Clearly Stated.

Link Exchanges

Yoshi2me actively participates in Link Exchanges with Other Sites in the capacity of informational resource or link recommendation. We offer a variety of pages and ways in which Other Sites may link back to Yoshi2me. Yoshi2me reserves the right to decline any link exchange requests and may remove links without notice at any time.

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Your donation is not a tax deductible contribution because Yoshi2me is not a non profit organization. In other words, your PayPal donation is considered a gift. I will use all gift donations towards administrative costs such as the creating, printing, and postage of flyers, web site hosting costs, and any out of pocket expenses that have been incurred to help keep this site operating. If you would prefer to think of it as a "tip" for the "tip jar" that is fine too. Thank you for your thoughtfulness.

Yoshi2me may participate in Affiliate Programs and advertising arrangements in order to recover expenses or make charitable contributions.

Yoshi2me is a huge and vital ever changing site. There is no big sponsor and no special interest groups that control any of the thoughts conveyed or facts shared. Every single person that has contributed to the site has done so from the heart in hopes of making a difference.

You should not ever have to pay a single dime in order to ask a question, post a message or receive information about local std support groups, local std social groups or std facts. Please keep that in mind when you surf the internet and come across "pay for" sites that claim to have it all.

HELP Group Disclaimer

HELP Groups are affiliated with the Herpes Resource Center (HRC), a program of the American Social Health Association (ASHA). HELP Groups exists to provide information and support to people concerned about genital herpes.

All individuals who are seeking information and support surrounding herpes concerns are welcome to attend HELP Group meetings. Your confidentiality will be upheld. There is NO FEE for the attendance or participation of a HELP Group meeting.

The link referrals that are non-ASHA related are provided as possible sources of information and support. They do not reflect or represent ASHA or the HELP Groups in any way.

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