France said on Friday, August 1, “had no way to request” the actions of female contraceptives that the US administration wishes to destroy the prey of feminist associations that denounce an “immense disaster.”
“To the extent that contraceptives are not medications of great therapeutic interest (MITM) and that in the present case we are not in the context of supply tension, we do not have means to require actions,” the Ministry of Health told AFP.
According to several Anglo -Saxon media, these contraceptives, whose value amounts to almost $ 10 million, should be increased “at the end of July” in France by a company specialized in the destruction of medical waste
The ministry said they had no information about the place where these contraceptives must be incoinated.
Products for sub -Saharan Africa
The US administration, dedicated to drastic cuts of their humanitarian aid and in an anti -abortion policy, confirmed in mid -July wanting to destroy female contraceptives, essentially implants and IUD, stored in a warehouse in Belgium.
These products, aimed at women who lived in sub -Saharan Africa, come from USAID contracts, the American International Development Agency, approved under the presidency of Joe Biden.
NGOs, feminist associations, unions and political figures have urged the French government to oppose this “absurd” measure.
Source: BFM TV
