If you have had a negative HPV test, it is unlikely that you will spread that particular strain of HPV to a new partner. However, please know that it is important to use condoms with each new partner, as different strains of HPV may be spread from one partner to another (as well as other STDs). If you have been diagnosed with one STD, your chances of acquiring another STD increases.
In most cases, HPV is harmless and symptomless. The body clears most HPV infections naturally.
Here is some great information from the American Social Health Association (ASHA):
"What about partners?
Most sexually active couples share HPV until the immune response suppresses the infection (your body has suppressed the infection, hence your negative test result). Partners who are sexually intimate only with each other are not likely to pass the same virus back and forth. When HPV infection goes away the immune system will remember that HPV type and keep a new infection of the same HPV type from occurring again. However, because there are many different types of HPV, becoming immune to one HPV type may not protect you from getting HPV again if exposed to another HPV type."
"...it is reasonable to say the chances of transmitting virus years after the last clinical episode (where lesions were detected) will become increasingly remote over time. This is not easy to prove and the lack of a solid “yes or no” answer is frustrating. Still, HPV does not seem likely to always be active."
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If you have had a negative HPV test, it is unlikely that you will spread that particular strain of HPV to a new partner. However, please know that it is important to use condoms with each new partner, as different strains of HPV may be spread from one partner to another (as well as other STDs). If you have been diagnosed with one STD, your chances of acquiring another STD increases.
In most cases, HPV is harmless and symptomless. The body clears most HPV infections naturally.
Here is some great information from the American Social Health Association (ASHA):
"What about partners?
Most sexually active couples share HPV until the immune response suppresses the infection (your body has suppressed the infection, hence your negative test result). Partners who are sexually intimate only with each other are not likely to pass the same virus back and forth. When HPV infection goes away the immune system will remember that HPV type and keep a new infection of the same HPV type from occurring again. However, because there are many different types of HPV, becoming immune to one HPV type may not protect you from getting HPV again if exposed to another HPV type."
"...it is reasonable to say the chances of transmitting virus years after the last clinical episode (where lesions were detected) will become increasingly remote over time. This is not easy to prove and the lack of a solid “yes or no” answer is frustrating. Still, HPV does not seem likely to always be active."
Source: Source: ASHA STD
March 10, 2011 - 12:26pmThis Comment
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