The government is targeting 2025 for the provision and reimbursement of a saliva test to detect endometriosis. “This is our objective”, but “this requires a final validation by the High Health Authority’, declared Catherine Vautrin on France 2.

In January, the High Authority for Health deemed a saliva screening test “promising” and “innovative” based on a study involving 1,000 women. The test, called Endotest, “showed very good diagnostic performance”.