{"id":3168,"date":"2019-06-18T07:37:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T07:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3168"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:21","slug":"african-countries-paying-too-much-for-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/06\/18\/african-countries-paying-too-much-for-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"African Countries &#8216;Paying Too Much For Medicine&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Esther Namuhisa and Damian Zane, BBC news<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Countries like Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia and Kenya could be\npaying up to 30 times more than the recommended price for medicines,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cgdev.org\/better-health-procurement\">a new report says<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">US-based Center for Global Development (CDG) says that lower\nto middle-income countries are losing out when purchasing what it calls branded\ngeneric drugs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Report author Amanda Glassman told BBC Newsday that one of the\nproblems is that many countries are buying these branded drugs when it would be\ncheaper to acquire what she described as &#8220;unbranded quality-assured\ndrugs&#8221; &#8211; guaranteed medicines which do not have an internationally\nrecognised drug company name associated with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She also said that many countries do not have a coordinated\ndrugs purchasing policy meaning that they are unable to negotiate a lower\nprice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The kinds of medicines affected range from basic pain killers,\nto statins to treat blood pressure and Herceptin for breast cancer treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The CDG says affordable drugs are necessary and in their absence &#8220;lasting health gains will remain elusive&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/live\/world-africa-48657201?ns_mchannel=social&amp;ns_source=twitter&amp;ns_campaign=bbc_live&amp;ns_linkname=5d087582edba10067bcb33e9%26African%20countries%20%27paying%20too%20much%20for%20medicine%27%262019-06-18T05%3A28%3A59.028Z&amp;ns_fee=0&amp;pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:bc3096d6-e391-4dbd-a326-bde7ddfc10e6&amp;pinned_post_asset_id=5d087582edba10067bcb33e9&amp;pinned_post_type=share\">original article<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/live\/world-africa-48657201?ns_mchannel=social&amp;ns_source=twitter&amp;ns_campaign=bbc_live&amp;ns_linkname=5d087582edba10067bcb33e9%26African%20countries%20%27paying%20too%20much%20for%20medicine%27%262019-06-18T05%3A28%3A59.028Z&amp;ns_fee=0&amp;pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:bc3096d6-e391-4dbd-a326-bde7ddfc10e6&amp;pinned_post_asset_id=5d087582edba10067bcb33e9&amp;pinned_post_type=share\">BBC News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Esther Namuhisa and Damian Zane, BBC news Countries like Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia and Kenya could be paying up to 30 times more than the recommended price for medicines,&nbsp;a new&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}