Your partner and condoms

This lesson is part of the WARTES HPV Masterclass. Preview: the first part of the narration.

Wart treatment is not only about you. It is also about your partner. In the vaccine video, we talked about the ping-pong effect: the virus can pass from your partner to you, and from you back to your partner, again and again.

To break this cycle, we include your partner in the treatment too. After laser treatment, your immune system is fighting the viruses that remain. If new viruses keep coming to the area from your partner, this fight becomes harder.

If you are a man, we recommend a gynaecological examination, an HPV test and a smear test for your partner. And whatever the results, we also recommend the HPV vaccine for your partner.

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