E-DRUG: Updated International Drug Price Indicator Guide Available
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Dear Colleagues,
Management Sciences for Health is pleased to announce the availability
of the Web version of the 2006 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 2006 edition of the Guide includes nearly 80 new items (for a total
of 1,050 items). The classes with the most new entries this year are
anti-infectives (most notably antiretroviral and antimalarial medicines)
and diagnostics.
This edition of the Guide was produced in collaboration with the World
Health Organization. Development was supported by the Strategies for
Enhancing Access to Medicines (SEAM) Program (http://www.msh.org/seam),
which was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The Web version of the 2006 edition is posted on the Manager's
Electronic Resource Center (http://erc.msh.org/), along with data from
the 1996 edition to the present. 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.
We currently do not have adequate funding to produce a CD-ROM or print
edition of the 2006 data. We hope to be able to do so for future
editions. Please let us know which format (Web, CD, or print) you prefer
so that we can focus our efforts accordingly.
If you would like to contribute your organization's price information to
the next edition of the Guide, please contact me at jmcfadyen@msh.org. I
would be delighted to discuss this with you.
Best regards,
Julie Frye McFadyen
Editor, International Drug Price Indicator Guide
Center for Pharmaceutical Management
Management Sciences for Health
4301 N. Fairfax Dr., Suite 400
Arlington, VA 22203 USA
Phone: +1.703.524.6575
Fax: +1.703.524.7898
E-mail: jmcfadyen@msh.org