E-DRUG: International Drug Price Indicator Guide Available
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Dear Colleagues,
Management Sciences for Health is pleased to announce the availability of the 2010 edition of the International Drug Price Indicator Guide. The Guide provides a spectrum of prices from 26 sources, including pharmaceutical suppliers, international development organizations, and government agencies. The Guide assists supply officers to determine the probable cost of pharmaceutical products for their programs, allows users to compare current prices paid to prices available on the international market or assess the potential financial impact of changes to a medicines list, and helps to support rational medicine use education.
The 2010 edition of the Guide includes 30 new items for a total of more than 1,100 items. The therapeutic classes with the most new entries this year are antiretroviral, antimalarial, and cytotoxic medicines.
The Web version of the Guide is posted on the Manager's Electronic Resource Center (http://erc.msh.org/priceguide), and contains data from the 1996 edition to the 2010 edition. We encourage you to visit the site and explore special features that you can use to create custom lists of medicines, compare your prices, and plan a budget.
If you would like to contribute your organization's price information to the next edition of the Guide or suggest a supplier to include, please contact me at jfrye@msh.org. I would be delighted to discuss this with you.
Best regards,
Julie Frye
Julie E. Frye
Editor, International Drug Price Indicator Guide
Management Sciences for Health
Center for Pharmaceutical Management
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Arlington, VA 22203 USA
+1-703-524-6575 (phone)
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