Women of all age groups are covered by free contraception.
The pricing and reimbursement committee of the Italian pharmaceutical agency AIFA, CPR, has decided to make birth control pills free of charge for women of all ages.
Newspapers, among others, reported on the matter La Repubblica (you will switch to another service) and L’Unione Sarda (you switch to another service).
Chairman of the CPR Giovanna Scroccaro says that before the decision, the committee analyzed the cheapest birth control pills and recommended that a certain number of products from each different drug generation be made available for free.
Scracco estimates that the decision will cost the state around 140 million euros per year.
– This is an important decision, thanks to which it is possible to expand the target group of women who today perhaps consider the costs of these contraceptives too high and therefore leave them unused, says Scroccaro, according to L’Unione Sarda.
– Contraception has always been little used in Italy, and this may now change.