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18-25 year olds can now:
As of July 1, young women can order a screening kit with health insurance. For example, The men of this age group will also be eligible in the coming months.
Health Insurance announced on Monday the launch of a free self -referral screening kit and delivered at home, for young people aged 18 to 25. Furthermore, Available since July 1 for women, the online kit of the kit will be extended to men “During the second half”. Moreover, The objective: to fight against the disturbing increase of two sexually transmitted infections (IST): Chlamydia and Gonococcus. Meanwhile, Indeed. Therefore, between 2021 and 2023, the cases of gonorrhea (due 18-25 year olds can now to gonococcal bacteria) jumped 59% in men and 46% in women, while cases of chlamydiosis increased by 10% in men, according to Public Santé France.
Kit’s request can be made confidentially on the health insurance website. Furthermore, after answering ten questions aimed at checking the person’s eligibility. However, The kit will then be delivered “On the place of his choice”specifies the organization. Concretely, how is it going? For women, the self-pronouncement goes through a vaginal swab, while for men, it is a collection of urine. In both cases. the sample is to be replaced in a tube, to be placed in a protective sachet, itself to be slipped into a pre-pronounced envelope. The results will be issued “Within five working days”specifies health insurance. Additionally, The kit order is confidential and secure.
This type of test is nothing new. Since September 2024. those under 26 have the possibility of 18-25 year olds can now being tested for free, without prescription or appointment In the laboratory for four infections: chlamydia, gonococcus, syphilis and hepatitis B. But the advantage of this new self -test kit is that it allows this analysis to be carried out. far from looks, and to the rhythm of its schedule.
18-25 year olds can now
Insufficient use of condoms
Continuously increased since the 2000s. bacterial sexually transmitted infections are “A public health issue due to the serious risks that they present both for women and for men”underlines health insurance, which highlights the risk of infertility or extra-uterine pregnancy. “Even in the absence of a symptom, it is possible to carry it and transmit it”continues the organization. Screening therefore takes on its full meaning. “It allows you to benefit from treatment in the event of a positive diagnosis. thus limit their spread”continues the organization.
According to health insurance. the 18-25 year olds can now leap in contaminations may be explained in particular by “An insufficient use of condoms, the most effective average to protect yourself from most IST”. Indeed: only half of men. women use a condom during their first sexual intercourse with a person met in the last 12 months, according to recent data.
To find out more, go to the health insurance site.
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