BACKGROUND Access to medicines is an important health policy issue. This paper considers demand structures in a selection of low-income countries from the perspective of public authorities as the evidence base is limited. Analysis of the demand for medicines in low-income countries is critical for effective pharmaceutical policy where regulation is less developed, health systems are cash constr...

Objectives: The study aims at evaluating the validity of national list essential medicines (NLEM) 2015 for affecting blood in 2022. essentially conducting a cost analysis that mainly compares variation between highest and lowest priced branded variants same. Material Methods: takes into account aforementioned two classes “Medicines Affecting Blood,” which is 10.1–antianemia 10.2–medicines coagu...

1 who work for the industry-funded Hudson Institute, advocate the use of patented drugs, pointing to what they say are risks associated with generic drugs. They confuse generic drugs with old, substandard, ineffective, and counterfeit drugs. Generic does not mean old. The 1996 World Trade Organisation (WTO) Agreements mandate all member countries to provide 20-year patent protection for medicin...

Address for correspondence: Gitanjali B, Department of Pharmacology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgradute Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry – 605 006, India. E-mail: [email protected] There are reportedly more than 1,00,000 drug formulations in the market in India. I have not seen a complete list of all the formulations nor been able to verify this fi gure which has remained unchang...

This report outlines the content of a one-day workshop on Generic Medicines that was held at KIST Medical College, Lalitpur, Nepal on 13(th) December 2010, which was attended by 32 delegates from different institutions in Nepal, including pharmacists, pharmacologists and medical doctors. Right medicine, right patient, right dose, right frequency and duration, right information and right monitor...

Most low-income nations have national medicine policy that emphasized the use of generic medicines in the public health sector. However, the use of generics is often debatable as there are concerns over its efficacy, quality, and safety compared to their branded counterparts. This study was conducted to compare the knowledge and perception of generic medicines among final year undergraduate med...

Generic medicines are pharmaceutical products usually intended to be interchangeable with the originator brand product, manufactured without a license from manufacturer and marketed after expiry of patent or other exclusivity rights. The current potential economic benefits associated their use have been exponentially rising thus, generic significant approach reduce massive expenditure on medici...

OBJECTIVE In 2001, Thailand implemented the Universal Coverage Scheme (UCS), a public insurance system that aimed to achieve universal access to healthcare, including essential medicines, and to influence primary care centres and hospitals to use resources efficiently, via capitated payment for outpatient services and other payment policies for inpatient care. Our objective was to evaluate the ...