Tagged with hepatitis

Pharma While growth forecasts for the MENA region remain high, falling oil prices and political instability are creating significant government budgetary challenges for the industry to adapt to. Janssen’s area managing director Khaled Mansour explains how the pharmaceutical industry can work to support Middle Eastern healthcare systems during this challenging period…

Pharma Marcyrl grew 40 percent and jumped from 15th to 9th place in the Egyptian market in 2014. With growth remaining strong, the board explains the keys to success for doing business in an unstable environment, and shares their plans for expansion, including a nearly completed hormonal facility. Marcyrl has expanded…

Pharma Fabrizio Greco, General Manager at AbbVie Italy, discusses the successful launch of the company’s new Hepatitis C treatment, how AbbVie is seeking to position itself as a partner to the authorities, and where the company’s next generation of growth drivers will be found. To start off, we are approaching the…

Pharma Abbvie has taking a leading role in the Egyptian pharmaceutical industry by bringing their new all-oral hepatitis C treatment to Egypt, the country with the highest prevalence of the disease in the world, making the company a major stakeholder in the country’s highest priority healthcare issue. How would you assess…

Pharma The President of CEPS, the French pricing agency, reveals the issues around the launch of the hepatitis C drug Sovaldi in 2014 and of CEPS´ role to ensure that innovative products are available to all patients who are in need of them. The Sovaldi case has focused public attention on the pricing of drugs in…

France The Director of the Social Security talks about the need to strengthen the sustainability of the French social security system, how France is attached to its unique system combining a high level of public coverage, with the strong involvement of the private sector, helping to provide access to innovation for…

pharma The country manager of Roche Diagnostics SA, Rajen Bhimaraj highlights the current gaps in the country’s healthcare system and elaborates on how the company’s various community initiatives, such as AmpliCare and the Roche Scientific Campus, are helping to address those gaps. He also evaluates the role of diagnostics in tackling…