It's a project that will be in the 2024 budget, Prime Minister Elizabeth Borne has assured: sanitary pads will be reimbursed during 2024, provided certain criteria are met. This new measure aims to combat menstrual precariousness.
Only young women under the age of 25 will be eligible for reimbursement, which will apply to reusable sanitary protection only. Menstrual briefs, washable pads or menstrual cups: for the moment, we don't know how much will be reimbursed for each of these reusable protections, or which brands will ultimately be eligible.
Periodic protection must be purchased in pharmacies for women under 25 to be reimbursed by Social Security. Menstrual precariousness refers to the difficulty women and girls have in affording sanitary protection due to low income: by 2023, more than 4 million French women were affected by this precariousness, according to figures from the FrenchNational Assembly.
Menstrual insecurity: sanitary pads distributed to all Essonne secondary schools
From the start of the 2023 school year, all Essonne secondary schools will be equipped with sanitary protection dispensers to combat menstrual insecurity among young women. [Read more]
Free sanitary products for all women in need? This is what several members of the government announced on May 28 in an opinion column for the Huff Post. This test distribution system will be implemented from September. [Read more]
This new measure comes on top of the free sanitary protection dispensers made available to students and high-school girls in certain locations, and the free sanitary protection for women in extremely precarious situations, in place since 2021.
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Menstrual insecurity: sanitary pads distributed to all Essonne secondary schools
Sanitary products soon to be free for women in need
