To direct the Director of the National Institutes of Health to conduct a study and submit to Congress a report on the development of a standardized, noninvasive test for HPV in men, and for other purposes.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 8939 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 8939 To direct the Director of the National Institutes of Health to conduct a study and submit to Congress a report on the development of a standardized, noninvasive test for HPV in men, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 20, 2026 Mrs. McIver (for herself, Mr. Carter of Louisiana, Mr. Menendez, and Mr. Veasey) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To direct the Director of the National Institutes of Health to conduct a study and submit to Congress a report on the development of a standardized, noninvasive test for HPV in men, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Closing the HPV Testing Gap Act''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress finds the following: (1) Human papillomavirus (in this section referred to as ``HPV'') is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States, with a significant proportion of HPV-related cancers, particularly oropharyngeal cancers, occurring among men. (2) There is currently no HPV diagnostic test for men that is approved by the Food and Drug Administration, creating a critical gap in public health surveillance, prevention, and treatment. (3) The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, in its 2023 report titled ``National Cancer Control Efforts Should Address the System, Not Its Individual Parts'', emphasized the importance of coordinated, system-wide strategies for cancer prevention. (4) Expanding HPV detection efforts to include men would promote gender equity in cancer prevention