E-drug: Comparative drug prices
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[Dear E-druggers, I hope you will help Albert in this endeavour, but
please send data to him, and NOT to E-drug. Thanks. HH]
Dear Colleagues,
We are undertaking a study to compare different drug prices in
different Latin-American countries.
However, in order to put data from Latin-American countries in a
more general framework, we would like to know something to be
used as a world comparator. So, I'm asking just two questions to
e-druggers from different countries in Europe, Africa and Asia:
1) Could you tell us the October 2001 price (in local currency) of an
Aspirin(R) Bayer box with 20 tablets of 500 mg acetilsalicilic acid in
a pharmacy or a supermarket? (if the box contains more or less
than 20 tablets, please indicate the number), and
2) Actual US $ exchange rate.
In order to avoid excessive messages about the same question in
e-drug, I suggest you to answer directly to my personal e-mail
(afs@icf.uab.es) and I will post the final table and some ideas in
e-drug.
Thank you very much,
Albert Figueras
E-farmacos moderator
Fundacio ICF
Barcelona, Spain
e-mail: afs@icf.uab.es
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