2024-03-24 12:37:00
“This Sidaction weekend, an important reminder to all those under 26: For you, condoms are free”wrote the head of state on X. “16.7 million have already been distributed in pharmacies. Take advantage of it. Continue to protect yourself!”.
At the end of 2022, Emmanuel Macron announced the entry into force, from January 1, 2023, of this measure which allows 100% coverage by Health Insurance, without a medical prescription, of male condoms.
The 2024 social security financing law now also provides for free certain female condoms for those under 26.
3.9 million euros in pledges
The 30th edition of Sidaction, a charity event supported by television and radio, is being held from Friday to Sunday.
In 2023, this event brought together just over 3.9 million euros in pledges, an amount close to that collected the previous year.
In France, some 200,000 people live with HIV and 5,000 new HIV-positive cases were discovered in 2022.
Although triple therapy treatments make the virus undetectable and prevent its transmission, we still do not know how to eliminate it from the body.
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