HIV, PrEP and sexual health access in France

UNAIDS GAM 2025 reports 59,326 people receiving PrEP in 2024. This is a service-use count, not a population coverage percentage, and it does not determine reimbursement. [Source: https://aidsinfo.unaids.org/dataset]

HAS recommends case-by-case DoxyPEP for multi-partner men who have sex with men and transgender women at high STI risk; universal reimbursement specifically for DoxyPEP was not verified. [Source: https://www.has-sante.fr/jcms/p_3586490/fr/doxycycline-en-prevention-des-infections-sexuellement-transmissibles-bacteriennes]

• National framework: A national mandatory EVAR/EVARS curriculum took effect in the 2025–2026 school year, with at least three age-appropriate sessions annually and content on consent, equality, health and discrimination.
• Interpretation: The status summarizes the verified policy framework; it does not guarantee uniform classroom delivery.

[Sources: https://www.education.gouv.fr/bo/2025/Hebdo6/MENE2503565C ; https://www.unesco.org/gem-report/en/peer ; https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/comprehensive-sexuality-education ; https://www.bzga-whocc.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Dokumente/BZgA_IPPFEN_ComprehensiveStudyReport_Online.pdf]

• Abortion: Abortion is available on request through 14 weeks; the freedom to have an abortion was added to the Constitution in 2024.
• Contraception: EPF's 2026 contraception-policy score is 97.9%; the atlas records broad national coverage.
• Interpretation: The status combines legal rules and national policy access; regional availability and individual eligibility may differ.

[Sources: https://abortion-policies.srhr.org/country/france/ ; https://www.epfweb.org/sites/default/files/2026-02/CCInfoEU_A3_EN_2026_FEB22-HiRes.pdf]

• Access rule: Undocumented low-income residents may qualify for State Medical Aid (AME) after more than three months of residence; urgent hospital care applies before eligibility in defined cases.
• Main barriers: The waiting period, income and residence evidence, renewals and administrative complexity can interrupt access.
• Migration measure: UN DESA estimates 9,186,757 international migrants at mid-year 2024. This is a point-in-time stock, not the number of people who arrived during 2024. The estimate is based on the foreign-born population. Refugee, asylum-seeker or refugee-like population data are incorporated where indicated by UN DESA.
• Origin definition: The origin shares below use country or area of birth for foreign-born estimates and country of citizenship for foreign-citizen estimates. They do not establish a person's nationality, ethnicity, language, reason for migration, legal status, recent-arrival status or undocumented status.
• Measurement basis: Foreign-born population + refugee/asylum adjustments (UN DESA code B R)
• Evidence note: ECDC indicators use 2024 reports: the foreign-born share is calculated only among diagnoses with known origin; late diagnosis is the country-level share with CD4 <350 cells/µL and is not migrant-specific. Data Unavailable means no sufficiently interpretable value was published; a blank is not zero. The status is an editorial comparison of legal entitlement and practical access and does not apply equally to every migrant group.