Vietnam Despite a decline in pharmaceutical sales during the COVID-19 pandemic, Vietnam is among the 17 countries with the most rapidly growing pharmaceutical industries in the world, as reported by nganhduoc.vn in its 2022 pharma industry forecast. With a market value of some USD 10 billion in 2020, according to another…
Egypt PhRMA’s Middle East & Africa (MEA) group appoints a ‘champion’ for each of its markets to bring the priorities of that country to the agenda of the MEA executive committee. Egypt’s champion is Amgen and – as the company’s MEA lead Mohammed Nasser describes – there is much to be…
Egypt Internationally renowned healthcare quality and safety expert Dr Ashraf Ismail explains the concept behind the Egyptian General Authority for Healthcare Accreditation and Regulation (GAHAR), its work in setting and implementing standards as well as accrediting healthcare institutions in Egypt, and his hopes for the country’s transformational rollout of universal health…
Egypt Under the auspices of a wide-ranging Vision 2030 economic transformation plan, Egypt is moving towards covering the entirety of its 100 million plus population under a universal healthcare insurance scheme. Via direct presidential initiatives, the country has also made significant progress in tackling diseases like hepatitis C and breast cancer,…
Egypt MSD’s managing director for Egypt, Libya, Sudan and Yemen, Hazem Abdel Samie, shares his perspective on recent changes within the American multinational and explains why Egypt’s move from a predominantly out-of-pocket market to a public system will open up many new opportunities. He also offers his view on the possibility…
Italy Digitalisation has become a buzz word in in the global life sciences sector. In Italy, digital transformation has taken on special significance as one of the principal goals encompassed in the country’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan and a priority within its healthcare modernisation plans. Novel solutions came out…
Egypt The CEO of Egypt’s Universal Health Insurance Authority (UHIA) Hossam Sadek outlines the country’s strategy to provide healthcare coverage for the entire population by 2030, explains how the system will be financed, the first results from pilot programs across a few governorates, and the main challenges ahead, including a change…
Italy EG STADA’s General Manager & Managing Director Italy, Salvatore Butti, explains the company’s strong heritage in generics, the solid presence it is developing in consumer healthcare with new acquisitions from GSK and Sanofi, and its biosimilar and specialties market inroads. In addition, he tells us about the STADA Health Report,…
Argentina The COVID-19 pandemic has caused economic and social disruption and has affected the behavior of both consumers and producers in Argentina, with an important impact on Argentine currency (ARS) devaluation and inflation, among others. We are not yet able to measure the real impact of the uncertainty the world is…
Europe Accord Healthcare’s Massimiliano Rocchi, Associate Vice President, Italy & Greece, explains the Italian generics market’s increased level of competition and Italian payers’ post-COVID willingness to accept the Most Economically Advantageous Tender (MEAT) concept. He also discusses the company’s move towards digitalisation and its ambition to build a bridge between the…
Global In 2022 global healthcare will continue to feel the effects of the pandemic and although COVID-19 has become less virulent, with the global death rate down to 0.4 percent from an initial peak of about three percent, new variants are still set to emerge this year. At the Economist Intelligence…
USA Ramona Sequeira, recently appointed chair of the PhRMA board of directors and president of Takeda’s US Business Unit and Global Portfolio Commercialization, gives her take on how the biopharma industry can do more to address the systemic inequities in US healthcare, including community-focused grant programs, clinical trial diversity initiatives, and…
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