Soon condoms reimbursed on medical prescription

"Starting December 10th", the French will be able to get rid of"boxes of 6, 12 or 24 condoms (…) in pharmacies on presentation of a prescription from a doctor or a midwife", said the Ministry of Health in a statement.

Reimbursed for services rendered

The mark concerned is Eden, from the French Majorelle laboratory, which had asked for and obtained in June a favorable opinion from the High Health Authority (HAS), judging that the service rendered by his male condoms could justify reimbursement by the Health Insurance.
"The management and obtaining on prescription of Eden will help to revitalize the image of the condom, sending a strong signal that it is not a badual gadget but a real tool for essential prevention, (and allow) to develop its use, especially with young people and new users whose purchasing power is very constrained", said Majorelle in a statement, the first laboratory to undertake such an approach.

6,000 new cases each year in France

"We can now, when we are young or when we present particular risks, or not elsewhere, when we are a woman or when we are a man, go see his doctor and have condoms refunded on medical prescription", explained Agnes Buzyn.
"Today, we discover each year about 6,000 new cases (of HIV status, ed), (…) especially among young people, around 800 to 1,000 new cases in people under 25, who often use the condom for their first badual intercourse, but not in the following acts"she said.

Alarming numbers in the world

36.9 million people worldwide were living with HIV in 2017. That is 35.1 million adults and 1.8 million children.
In the Caribbean, 310,000 this figure stands at 31,000 according to UNAIDS, a UN program designed to coordinate the work of the various specialized agencies of the UN to fight the HIV / AIDS pandemic. 10,000 AIDS-related deaths were recorded in 2017 in the greater region.

Guadeloupe is not spared

Guadeloupe is the second most affected region in France by HIV infection, after French Guiana and before Île-de-France.
Here, the diagnosis of HIV infection is, on average, made later than in France: a large proportion of HIV-infected people are late in care, often during the onset of AIDS, Many people living with HIV are in a precarious situation (social, administrative) – a significant proportion of people living with HIV who enter care leave the care system and can remain "out of sight" for a long time.
There are 2,000 people living with HIV cared for and / or followed in Guadeloupe and Saint-Martin, according to the latest data collected.