Health Will Allocate More than €9 Million to Provide Free Condoms to Young People Aged 16 to 22
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The increase in STIs forces the Ministry of Health to take action: it will distribute free condoms to three million young people.
García’s department announced that this measure – for which more than 9 million euros have been allocated – would be implemented in 2024. More information: Spain leads the growth of syphilis in the EU, for which there are few therapies and little research
The Ministry of Health will allocate more than nine million euros to finance condoms for young people between the ages of 16 and 22 through pharmacies. A measure that will be implemented in 2027 with the aim of reducing the alarming figures of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in Spain: in 2024 alone, more than 93,000 cases were reported, reaching the highest levels in more than a decade. The initiative is part of the new Roadmap 2026-2030,…
From 2027 onwards, condoms will be free for young people between 16 and 22 years of age. Earlier this year, you will be able to get a self-diagnosis of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) from home with a kit approved by Health. The Ministry has presented its plan 2026-2030 to stop gonorrhea, chlamydia and syphilis, which in 2024 exceeded 90,000 cases in Spain. The plan includes prevention, diagnosis and surveillance measures. The most striki…
On Monday, the Director General of Public Health of the Ministry of Health, Pedro Gullón, announced the launch of a programme of free condoms for people between 16 and 22 years of age, which “changes literature” and establishes them as “a right” through the pharmacy offices. The aim of these prevention methods is to “try to make them a right” and to introduce them into the “day by day”, which is “something that is there”, he highlighted during t…
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