New Health Experts Q&A Men’s Health

Do men who are HPV16 positive need treatment?

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Asked on：Mar 28, 2026 08:39 AM

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Clementine
Mar 28, 2026

The survey found that some men will be tested to have HPV16 in their bodies and show positive results. However, most men do not understand the actual meaning of the test results. According to statistics, many men probably know that HPV is related to genital warts, but they know very little about the details. So, what does it mean for men to be positive for HPV16? What follows is an authoritative report on this issue.

According to doctors, HPV is a common virus called human papilloma virus infection. There are more than 200 types of symptoms, most of which are relatively harmless and do not cause any obvious symptoms. But about 30 of them can cause infections in the genital areas of men and women. According to the different morbidity of HPV subtypes or the size of carcinogen risk factors, HPV can be divided into two categories: low-risk type and high-risk type. HPV16 is a high-risk type that often causes genital warts. Experts say that genital warts can be infected, and the common modes of infection are as follows.
1. Infection from maternal and infant products: Mainly because pregnant women with genital warts, especially those with insignificant clinical manifestations but viral infection in the cervix, will have viruses in their reproductive systems. In normal clinical delivery, when pregnant women give birth, the fetus passes through the delivery door, causing viral infection in the newborn baby, causing the baby to suffer from genital warts. 2. Indirect transmission: Indirect transmission is also of this type, mainly because some patients with genital warts are infected with human papillomavirus through indirect means, the most common of which are daily necessities such as underwear, bathtubs, etc. Therefore, the special preparation is for long-term trips, and tourists should pay attention to this matter.
3. Direct infection: Genital warts are genital tract infections, so direct transmission is the same as other sexually transmitted diseases. This is the most important way of transmission of genital warts. When having sexual intercourse with a patient suffering from genital warts or a patient infected with this virus, the warts that grow in the genital area can cause the warts and the virus in the outer skin tissue to fall off and be vaccinated on the sexual organs of the sexual partner, causing human papillomavirus infection and the onset of the disease. Therefore, genital warts are very easy to occur in groups with very complex sexual behavior.
HPV16 is an analysis of HPV. If it is positive in a man's body, it means that the male patient is infected with HPV16. Friendly reminder from experts and professors: Among the many types of HPV, HPV16 is a high-risk type. Therefore, when a man tests positive for HPV16, he cannot turn a blind eye. He just needs to turn the positive test into a negative test as soon as possible to ensure that he will not be harmed again.

Can men who are HPV16 positive be cured?

The vast majority of men who are HPV16 positive can be cured. For men, if only high-risk HPV16 infection is found but there are no warts, it does not require treatment. In clinical medicine, it is not only men, but also women. Most patients with high-risk HPV infection can eliminate the virus through the improvement of their own resistance. No special treatment is required. The recovery time is about half a year to a year, depending on the actual resistance.