Drug prices and trends before and after requesting compulsory licenses: the Ecuadorian experience.
Expert Opin Ther Pat
; 29(8): 653-662, 2019 Aug.
Article
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-31298053
Introduction: The Ecuadorian Institute of Intellectual Property (IEPI) granted several compulsory licenses between 2011 and 2017. In 2009, the President of Ecuador signed a decree that was intended to facilitate the request of compulsory licenses (CL) in the country, not only for Enfarma EP but for any privately owned local company in order to produce more accessible medicines. Areas covered: The national and international regulatory framework of pharmaceutical patents and the local applicability of CL in Ecuador. The authors also analyzed the results of requesting unplanned and epidemiologically unnecessary CL at a national level. Finally, the authors reviewed the effects of requesting, granting or denying CL on price per unit in the last 7 years of available data. Expert opinion: The authors think that compulsory licenses are useful tools when negotiating drug prices or when the demand cannot be satisfied due to economic constrain within the local health system. However, the authors' experience suggests that Ecuador did not have an established and reliable production system neither an adequate plan before requesting CL, therefore the positive effects of this measure were not clearly established.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Custos de Medicamentos
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Indústria Farmacêutica
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Licenciamento
Tipo de estudo:
Health_economic_evaluation
Limite:
Humans
País/Região como assunto:
America do sul
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Ecuador
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Expert Opin Ther Pat
Assunto da revista:
TERAPEUTICA
Ano de publicação:
2019
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Equador
País de publicação:
Reino Unido