Current situation of availability and cost effectiveness analysis of selected drugs in Anantapur, AP, India.
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2012-06
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World Health Organization (WHO) and Health Action International (HAI) recognized
the need for a standard methodology to measure medicine prices in countries so that a clearer
picture of what patients actually pay for medicines in low and middle-income countries could be
obtained. These two organizations jointly published a manual, which described a methodology
for collecting data and measuring medicine prices in various countries. By adopting this
methodology, in present study we focused to obtain 1. Baseline data for the availability of
medicines in the public and private sectors, 2. Cost Effectiveness Analysis or Affordability of
model treatment regimen and 3. Comparison of national Most Sold Generics/MSGs in Anantapur.
We did our survey in four phases namely survey planning and preparation, sampling, selection of
medicines, MSG equivalents, affordability/ cost effectiveness analysis and availability. The
results of the study provided stable baseline interventions to improve the availability of medicines
in the public sector and reduce the prices in private sector.
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Affordability/ Cost effectiveness Analysis, Availability, MSGs (Most sold Generics), WHO (World Health Organization), HAI (Health Action International)
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Singh Meenu, Pragzna Y, Bommi Dharma Dev. Current situation of availability and cost effectiveness analysis of selected drugs in Anantapur, AP, India. Journal of Applied Pharmaceutical Science. 2012 June; 2(6): 179-185.