Usually, an HPV infection resolves on its own within 2 years and you do not develop a disease from it.1 However, the number HPV-related diseases in the Netherlands is increasing. More than 1100 women and almost 400 men develop cancer each year in the Netherlands due to the virus. Approximately 400 of them die as a result.3 In 2021, more than 18,500 women and almost 29,000 men in the Netherlands received the diagnosis of genital warts.4