{"id":1196,"date":"2024-10-11T01:10:07","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T01:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=1196"},"modified":"2024-10-11T01:10:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T01:10:07","slug":"how-long-does-it-take-for-new-pharmaceuticals-to-reach-low-and-middle-income-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=1196","title":{"rendered":"How long does it take for new pharmaceuticals to reach low and middle-income countries?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That is the question considered by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthaffairs.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1377\/hlthaff.2024.00089\">Wouters and Kuha (2024)<\/a> in a recent <em>Health Affairs<\/em> article.  The authors use IQVIA data between 1982 and 2024 on the timing of drug launches and estimate median delay times using a Kaplan Meier estimates.  They find that:<\/p>\n<p>From the first launch globally, the median time to availability was 2.7 years for high-income countries, 4.5 years for upper-middle-income countries, 6.9 years for lower-middle-income countries, and 8.0 years for low-income countries. The gap between richer (high- and upper-middle-income) and poorer (lower-middle- and low-income) countries remained largely unchanged over time. <\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the authors also find that about three-quarters (74%) of first launches occurred in eight countries with most first launches occurring (in order) in: US, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, France, Germany, and Japan. <\/p>\n<p>You can read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthaffairs.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1377\/hlthaff.2024.00089\">here<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That is the question considered by Wouters and Kuha (2024) in a recent Health Affairs article. The authors use IQVIA data between 1982 and 2024 on the timing of drug launches and estimate median delay times using a Kaplan Meier estimates. They find that: From the first launch globally, the median time to availability was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}