"Banco, we're going to do it!" Said the head of state in a tweet and a video posted on social networks.
After this announcement, "I was taken to task by several of you on the fact that many of our young minors had sexual relations and that they also had to be able to protect themselves, that they could have the same financial constraints," he explains in the video.
"We are going to make the teams work to be able to extend this measure to minors (...) I think it is a very good prevention policy to allow all young people to protect themselves", he adds, taking up the watchword "Get out covered".
If the terms of this support remain to be specified, the Minister of Health François Braun assured that the process would "be very simple: 100% reimbursement by Social Security", "without prescription".
In the video, Emmanuel Macron also indicates that, beyond HIV, free screening will be extended "to other pathologies, other viruses, because it is also our prevention policy".
“We will continue to strengthen our health prevention policy, regular diagnosis and screening at older ages, go further on vaccination against certain viruses. I am thinking of the papillomavirus”, he adds.
Condoms distributed in a prevention center on December 1, 2020 in Paris © STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / POOL/AFP/Archives
In recent years, the number of new diagnoses of HIV infection has not decreased in France, stagnating around 5,000 in 2021. In addition, according to Public Health France, 15% of people who discovered their HIV status in 2021 were aged under 25, and the share of this age group has not fallen since 2017.
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