After ten years, generic reach 18% of sales
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With ten years of market regulation generally, these drugs represent only 18% of the pharmaceutical market in the country in units sold, according to data presented yesterday in Sao Paulo by the industry, in a commemorative event. And the goal of the Ministry of Health to achieve one-third by 2012 can not be performed because of difficulties as the end of the Provisional Contribution on Financial Transactions (CPMF) (the tax check that no longer hold). In nations like Germany and the State, the volume is 60%.
On the one hand there is space for this market grows, prices of generics - which today amount on average to half the value of brand-name drugs - only to fall over if there is increased competition, experts said. Generics are copies of brand-name drugs whose patents have expired. Its regulation in the country occurred in 1999 and determined that they should cost at least 35% less than the brand. Must also pass tests to confirm their bioequivalence with respect to brand-name drugs.
In 2000, the first generic entered the market and today the volume of products quadrupled. "We can conclude, is a child who has breathing space to keep moving," said Odnir Finotti, president of the Brazilian Association of Generic Drugs. Finotti emphasized the goal of the sector to achieve a third of the market by 2012, projections made in the strategic program More Health Ministry. But Secretary of Science and Technology of the Ministry of Health, Reinaldo Guimarăes, warned that with the end of the CPMF, the goal must be reviewed.
Currently, SHS is a major purchaser of generic drugs, but according to the industry, similar drugs, which also copy brand-name drugs, but without tests of bioequivalence, are preferred for ensuring best prices in public tenders. Simoni said prices could fall as generics increase competition in the sector, but both he and representatives of the federal government emphasized that for certain sections of the population policy will not guarantee access and it will depend on the maintenance and expansion of state investment in the distribution . The information is the newspaper O Estado de S. Paul.
Source: State Agency
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