South Africa: The Banal Evil of Drug Pricing - allAfrica.com

South Africa: The Banal Evil of Drug Pricing - allAfrica.com

NALYSISBy Nathan Geffen

Martin Shkreli was the most hated man on the internet for a brief time this week. His company, Turing Pharmaceuticals, pushed up the price of a medicine, pyrimethamine, used to treat a life-threatening disease from $13.50 (approx R185) to $750 (approx R10,250) a pill.

Shkreli is dislikeable. Read this, this, this and watch this:

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South Africa

How to get Authentic Drug Pricing in Different countries (Retail, Ex-Factory, FOB/ CIF Price etc.)

Drug price list/ SEP Databases

These website facilitates timeous communication of all matters related to the Medicine Price Registry as well as the latest single exit price schedules as approved by the Pharmaceutical Economic Evaluation Unit of the Department of Health.

MPR - Code for South Africa

SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICINE PRICE REGISTRY

Single Exit Price Documents

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