Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Oct 2019
21,000 to benefit from Mirena and Jaydess
14 October 2019 - PHARMAC is widening funded access to Mirena, as well as listing a new long-acting reversible contraceptive option, Jaydess, which will benefit around 21,000 New Zealand women.
The Mirena and Jaydess are both levonorgestrel intrauterine systems, supplied by Bayer who will have sole supply until October 2022.
“We heard from New Zealanders that this was something they wanted us to fund,” says PHARMAC’s acting medical director and practicing obstetrician and gynaecologist Dr Ken Clark.
