Contents:
- Medical Video: HPV Vaccine Is Important For Mens Health Too HD
- How can men get HPV infection?
- Are there checks for HPV in men?
- Prevent HPV in men
- Can sex with condoms prevent HPV?
- How do you administer the HPV vaccine to men?
- Don't wait until adulthood or after marriage
- Is it safe for men to get the HPV vaccine?
Medical Video: HPV Vaccine Is Important For Mens Health Too HD
Infection Human papillomavirus (HPV) more known to the public as a cause cervical cancer. Therefore, immunization (vaccine) to prevent HPV is more intensively socialized to women. Even though HPV can also attack men and cause penile cancer. Apart from these two types of cancer, some types of HPV can also cause genital warts, cancer of the mouth or throat, and anal cancer. Learn more about HPV in men, see below.
How can men get HPV infection?
HPV in men can be transmitted through sexual contact with people who have been infected with HPV. Transmission is very easy and most often occurs through anal, vaginal, or oral sex.
Keep in mind, HPV can be transmitted even if the infected person shows no signs or symptoms.
Are there checks for HPV in men?
To date there has been no HPV screening examination other than for cervical cancer in women. Therefore, most cases of HPV in men are only known when they have reached a serious condition that is difficult to treat.
Prevent HPV in men
The most effective way is by giving HPV vaccine. This vaccine forms the body's immunity so that its nature is to prevent infection, not cure.
In Indonesia, there are two types of HPV vaccines in circulation, namely bivalent (two types of HPV virus) and tetravalent (four types of HPV virus). Bivalent HPV vaccine to prevent cervical cancer, while tetravalent in addition to cervical cancer also for genital warts.
Can sex with condoms prevent HPV?
Condoms can indeed prevent HPV infection. However, this method cannot guarantee that you are 100% virus free.
Because, HPV may still infect areas that are not protected by condoms and transmission can also occur through contact between infected skin. For example when doing oral or anal sex. So not necessarily through genitals alone.
How do you administer the HPV vaccine to men?
Just like women, the HPV vaccine is given three times in the upper arm with a distance between vaccines which is six months.
According to the CDC in the United States, the HPV vaccine can be given faster, which is at the age of nine and must be completed before the age of 13 years. If given in that age range, the vaccine only needs to be given twice. The distance starts from six to twelve months between vaccines.
Don't wait until adulthood or after marriage
HPV vaccine more effective if given at a young age, that is before being sexually active (before marriage). The Indonesian Association of Skin and Gynecologists (PERDOSKI) advises parents to give HPV vaccine to boys between the ages of 10 and 12.
Men at high risk of being infected with HPV (homosexuals or who change sexual partners, both men and women), and men who have HIV or a weak immune system to age 26 should also get an HPV vaccine in men.
Is it safe for men to get the HPV vaccine?
Since the HPV vaccine received distribution authorization for the first time in 2006, this vaccine is considered to be very safe, effective, and has very few serious side effects for women or men. Common side effects are pain and redness of injection shots. Several studies have also shown that this vaccine is proven to protect men from genital warts and anal cancer.
