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the next-generation birth control pills and vaginal ring and hormone patches

The latest draft of the national strategy for sexual health and reproductive propose co-financing, that users pay only 40%.

Next Monday will be held the territorial council, where the Ministry of Health will come with an eraser on sexual and reproductive health, no doubt, will have to talk. Yet known the final text, but some newspapers have already leaked some of its content.

Financed pills
El Periodico de Catalunya reported yesterday that the Ministry of Health will propose that the next-generation birth control pills and vaginal ring and hormone patches, are financed and included in the National Health System (NHS) and other drugs. That is, the client pays only 40%. In addition, it argued that the draft leaves open the total funding in some cases and for groups with limited resources, to ensure equity to access.

Without doubt, it would be a benefit to 1.8 million users who use modern oral contraceptives in Spain and pay out of pocket. A benefit IU deputy Gaspar Llamazares estimated to cost 100 million euros a year to government coffers.

Controversy with the morning-after pill
For its part, the newspaper ABC debate focused around the morning after pill. Health claimed that counselors try to convince autonomic financing the morning after pill to prevent “inequalities and inequities in access, as some communities and assume the full cost of what it would disadvantage the remaining users.

According to ABC, this measure would further facilitate access to contraceptive method for a year no age limit, nor does it require a prescription.

However, we should expect to hear territorial council the draft text proposed by the Ministry of Health and verify if it achieves the necessary supports or is opposed by the communities governed
by the PP.