The vaccine is used to guard against four types of HPV. Strains 6, 11, 16, and 19 were targeted because combined they cause 70 percent of cervical cancer and 90 percent of genital warts. “One thing of interest is that this particular virus can lead to anal and penile cancers, as well as head and neck cancers,” says Dr. Sarah White, the Director of Communications for the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, one of the institutes that conducted research for the inoculation.
White says that several companies are working to develop a HPV vaccination for men, but more knowledge on how to help their girlfriends can only be optimal. “The vaccination is meaningful for men as well, because two of them [the strains of HPV] cause genital warts for men and women, so the Gardasil vaccine would prevent infection from the virus that causes most genital warts,” White says.
If proven successful, the vaccination would most likely be administered the same way it is for women at the moment, as a three-shot vaccine. For now, White says, men can only be aware of how they can spread the infection and to be careful with their partners.
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