Oral contraception will soon be free for all women .
The Pricing and Reimbursement Committee (CPR) of the Italian Medicines Agency (AIFA) today approved the decision to make the contraceptive pill free for women of all age groups .
The total cost for the state coffers is estimated at around 140 million euros a year .
The news was anticipated by Quotidiano Sanità with an interview with the president of the Cpr of Aifa Giovanna Scroccaro .
To make contraception free in Italy « the least expensive products were evaluated within 3 categories of contraceptive drugs, identified and divided by 'generation', which were made free . It was in particular the Technical-Scientific Commission that divided the large number of contraceptives available to date by progestogen component, recommending that a certain number of products be made available free of charge for each different 'generation' of medicines, guaranteeing a certain overlapping", states the 'expert.
«We - continues Scroccaro - then analyzed those with the lowest prices. The cost estimate for the State is around 140 million euros per year, but this is an important decision, which will make it possible to expand the number of women who today, perhaps, considered the cost of these contraceptives too high and for this they used it ".
As always, the expert points out, “ in Italy there has been little recourse to contraception and this may now change . Furthermore, it is difficult to say, since there has been no price negotiation for these products, that a 25 euro pill is better than those that cost 10 euros».
(Unioneonline/L)
