Brazil’s Spiraling Access Suits And The Potential Impact On Companies

 
• By Francesca Bruce
  
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Spending on medicines as a result of litigation against health authorities is soaring in Brazil. Scrip investigates the challenges firms may face in future, including greater pricing pressure, a more NICE-like health technology appraisal system and increased scrutiny over any perceived industry wrongdoing.

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Lawsuits brought by patients to enable them to access medicines and other healthcare products have been a fixture in Brazil for some years. This is because Brazil’s constitution gives all citizens the basic right to healthcare. However, it does not stipulate how this should work practically and fails to establish any limits on the provision of healthcare. If a product is made available on the national health system, the SUS, in theory it should be accessible to everyone. In the wake of this phenomenon pharmaceutical companies active or pursuing business in Brazil must adapt quickly.

Most court cases arise when a product is not available on the SUS, either because it has been excluded from...

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