Since Monday, July 1, women aged 18 to 25 can get a free transmitted infections (IST) screening kit for free from home. This new device, baptized “Mon Test is”is carried by health insurance in order to strengthen prevention in the face of the flambé of cases of chlamydia and gonorrhea observed in recent years.
Concretely, The kit can be ordered on the Ameli siteafter filling a short questionnaire of ten questions. He will then be Delivered free of charge to the address of his choicewith a manual to make a approval. Once the sample is taken, it will be enough to return the tube to an analysis laboratory. The results will be transmitted within five working daysVia SMS.
The initiative, reserved for the moment for women, will be extended to men during the second halfspecifies the National Health Insurance Fund (CNAM) in a press release.
STIs in strong progression among young people
Health insurance recalls that bacterial ist, such as chlamydia or gonorrheaare in continuous increase since the early 2000s. “Even in the absence of a symptom”it is possible to carry an STI, “and to transmit it”underlines the organization, emphasizing the importance of screening.
According to Public health FranceTHE Gonorrhea case jumped 59% in men and 46% in women Between 2021 and 2023. Chlamydiosis increased by 10 % in men over the same period.
A device that has already proven itself
This new program is part of the plan “Mon Test is”which has offered the opportunity to be tested for free and without prescription for four infections since September 2024 for four infections: chlamydia, gonococcus, syphilis and hepatitis B.
Health insurance is based in particular on encouraging results of “chlamyweb” experimentation Leaded in 2012 by INPES (now Public Health France). This initiative had made it possible to multiply by 3.4 the use of chlamydia screening among young peoplecompared to a simple orientation towards the classic care structures, recalls Midi Libre.
