[e-drug] Public sources of Canadian drug prices

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E-DRUG: Public sources of Canadian drug prices
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[We have Canadian e-druggers that are able to assist. See also the WHO/EDM website's price information for member states: http://www.who.int/medicines/areas/access/ecofin_who_memberstates/en/index.html (repair link). Moderator]

Does anyone happen to know where I can get data on historical and current Canadian drug prices procured by the federal or state governments? I understand that there are some public databases for this information but haven’t been able to find them.

Anyone with any information can email me directly: anunn@businessfightsaids.org.

Thanks,

Amy Nunn, ScD
Corporate Relations Manager
Global Business Coalition on AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GBC)
One Liberty Plaza
165 Broadway, 36th floor
New York, NY 10006
Direct phone line: 1-212-584-1636
Fax: 1-646-390-5996
www.businessfightsaids.org

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There is a federal agency that regulates the prices of patented drugs but
the Canadian federal government has only a minor role in paying for drugs
and as such there aren't any available prices paid by the federal
government. Most of the public financing of drugs is done by the provincial
governments. The drugs covered by the provinces vary from province to
province but the prices are pretty well the same across provinces. Prices
are listed in provincial drug formularies and you can access them from the
following web site <http://www.chaps.ucalgary.ca/Links/formularies.htm&gt;\.
Prices in the private sector tend to be the same as those in the public
sector.

Joel Lexchin
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Joel Lexchin MD
121 Walmer Rd.
Toronto ON
Canada M5R 2X8
Tel: 416-964-7186
Fax: 416-736-5227
E mail: joel.lexchin@utoronto.ca