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This whole thread has me thinking it's tragic, considering the potential consequences of the deadlier strains of HPV and the incredible ease of HPV transmission, that there is no HPV test for men. Men are the main carriers and transmitters but there is no test (other than what amounts to an "anal Pap smear for men" that can be done but isn't recommended by the FDA or CDC). The only advice for men I found online was that they'll know they might have it only when lesions appear. Terrible.

Vaccination of course is key, but with resistance to vaccines of all kinds, plus the already existing prevalance of HPV pretty much everywhere, both women and men should be [i]demanding[/i] that a male HPV test be a research goal.

But I'm betting that two ugly realities are likely:

One, researching and developing such a test probably does not make enough money for pharma companies, and they make much more money on cranking out drugs to treat HPV and the cancers it causes.

Two, HPV is still viewed by many people in many parts of this country as a "lifestyle disease" that people bring on themselves because they are morally compromised. So there's no push to test for it, treat it more widely or cure it, since our culture wants to treat STIs as shameful and somehow "deserved."[/quote]

Uh, I’m not sure why you would think this when obviously it would be incredibly lucrative to have either a test for asymptomatic men and/or to develop drugs to treat this extremely common cancer and wart-causing condition in both men and women. If it doesn’t exist it’s probably because the science is hard and the drug is hard to develop. Maybe you think pharma just snaps its fingers and presto has a cure for any disease. Because it’s so easy. That must be why it took 40 years to get effective HIV medication? Or why there is still no cure for most cancers?

Maybe you also have a similar conspiracy theory about the HPV vaccine? Cause it makes so much more money to prevent an easily transmitted disease than it does to develop drugs to treat it? Yah that makes tons of sense. That must be why.[/quote]

How obtuse. The attitude around HPV is unfortunately this: "It's no big deal, it usually clears on its own, if I have it it's going to go away and if I give it to someone else, well, it's no big deal." Those who have had cancers from it know better but this is the prevalent way it gets thought about. So if there were a test for men, do you really think uptake on that test would be huge? That men would stampede to get it? Probably not, unless women demanded they do so and you should know if you read DCUM that women too often don't make it a priority for partners to test before they start having sex.

I have a family member who works in pharma so I know perfectly well that no one "snaps their fingers and presto" there's a cure. Your insult is ignorant and misses the point. I'm asking, is pharma even RESEARCHING and working toward an eventual TEST; I never said pharma could magically produce a cure in an instant. Pay attention.

What I say is not a conspiracy theory. Everyone knows that big pharma is about the money; that's no secret and it doesn't take a conspiracy theorist to believe it. And where did I talk about the vaccine being a money-maker or not? I'm addressing male HPV test research. You seem to be quick to shrug off the idea that pharma ought at least to research male HPV tests....[/quote]

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