E-DRUG: Updated International Drug Price Indicator Guide
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Dear Colleagues,
Management Sciences for Health is pleased to announce the publication of the 2004 edition of the International Drug Price Indicator Guide. The Guide provides a spectrum of prices from 23 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 drug list, and helps to support rational drug use education.
The 2004 edition of the Guide includes more than 50 new items (for a total of more than 900 items). The therapeutic classes with the most new entries this year are anti-infectives (especially antibacterials and antituberculosis medicines) and diagnostic agents. A CD-ROM version of the 2004 Guide is included with all print copies.
The 2004 edition of the Guide was produced in collaboration with the World Health Organization. Development and publication of the Guide were supported by the Strategies for Enhancing Access to Medicines (SEAM) Program (http://www.msh.org/seam), which is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The Web version of the 2004 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 drugs, compare your prices, and plan a budget.
If you are not already on our mailing list, please contact the MSH Bookstore at bookstore@msh.org or visit our eBookstore at www.msh.org/resources/publications to request a copy of the 2004 International Drug Price Indicator Guide.
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 E. 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