2023-04-24 12:44:32
The so-called AIDS preventive pill has also been approved free of charge.
The Italian Medicines Agency (Aifa) has approved the decision to make the birth control pill be free for women of all age groups, with a total cost for the State coffers estimated at around 140 million euros per year, according to the specialized website ‘Quotidiano Sanit’, which anticipated it with an interview with the President of the Price and Reimbursement Committee (CPR), Giovanna Scroccaro, the body in charge of deciding which drugs are covered by the health system.
The call has also been approved AIDS preventive pillthe medicines based on tenofovir, disoproxil and emtricitabine, used in the treatment of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and that will be reimbursed and will be paid by the State.
Although time will still be needed, Scroccaro explained that this decision was necessary “to make contraception free in Italy “within three categories of contraceptive drugs, identified and divided by generation, the cheapest products were evaluated, which became free “.
The estimated cost for the State is about 140 million euros per year, “But it is an important decision, which will make it possible to increase the number of women who today, perhaps, considered the cost of these contraceptives too high and therefore did not use them,” he added.
Scroccaro adds that “contraception has always been little used in Italy and this may now change.” “A decision that we were waiting for. Some regions had already decided for the youngest. It is an important step for the protection of sexual and reproductive health,” Senator Cecilia D’Elia of the opposition Democratic Party said on her networks. .
While Maria Rachele Ruiu, a member of the conservative and anti-abortion association “Pro Vita & Famiglia”, assures that “there is nothing more dangerous for the health of women than being banal with issues that impact their skin, such as abortion, the contraception, gender and prostitution”.
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