{"id":3438,"date":"2019-06-28T07:42:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T07:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3438"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:22","slug":"how-poor-regulation-inflates-cost-of-drugs-in-developing-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/06\/28\/how-poor-regulation-inflates-cost-of-drugs-in-developing-nations\/","title":{"rendered":"How poor regulation inflates cost of drugs in developing nations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By NASIBO\nKABALE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Low- and middle-income\ncountries such as Kenya are paying more for medicines than rich States,\naccording to a new report from the Centre for Global Development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report published this week\nindicates that patients in low- and middle-income countries pay as much as 20\nto 30 times above the minimum international reference price for basic generic\nmedicines like omeprazole, used to treat heartburn, or paracetamol, a common\npain reliever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The biggest contributor to\nthese price variations, the reports shows, is the fact that those countries\ntend to buy the most expensive drugs as opposed to opting for the cheaper\nunbranded generics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn the poorest countries,\nbranded generics \u2014 which command a price premium \u2014 make up about two-thirds of\nthe market by volume and value. Unbranded generics, usually the least expensive\noption, are a tiny sliver, only five percent of the market by volume and three\npercent by value\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/datahub\/How-poor-regulation-inflates-cost-of-drugs\/3815418-5171926-102nyjr\/index.html\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By NASIBO KABALE Low- and middle-income countries such as Kenya are paying more for medicines than rich States, according to a new report from the Centre for Global Development. The&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3439,"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-3438","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\/3438","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=3438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}