<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Vern Weitzel</b> <<a href="mailto:vern.weitzel@gmail.com">vern.weitzel@gmail.com</a>><br>crosposted from: "[health-vn discussion group]" <<a href="mailto:health-vn@anu.edu.au">health-vn@anu.edu.au</a>><br>
</span>From: <a href="mailto:communications@msh.org">communications@msh.org</a><br><br><br>Management Sciences for Health is pleased to announce the availability<br>of the 2008 edition of the International Drug Price Indicator Guide. The<br>
Guide provides a spectrum of prices from 25 sources, including<br>pharmaceutical suppliers, international development organizations, and<br>government agencies. The Guide assists supply officers to determine the<br>probable cost of pharmaceutical products for their programs, allows<br>
users to compare current prices paid to prices available on the<br>international market or assess the potential financial impact of changes<br>to a medicines list, and helps to support rational medicine use<br>education.<br>
<br>The 2008 edition of the Guide includes nearly 50 new items (for a total<br>of more than 1,200 items). The therapeutic classes with the most new<br>entries this year are anti-infectives (especially antiretroviral and<br>
antimalarial medicines) and diagnostics.<br><br>This edition of the Guide was produced in collaboration with the World<br>Health Organization. Development and publication was supported by the UK<br>Department for International Development (DFID) and the Medicines<br>
Transparency Alliance (MeTA).<br><br>The Web version of the 2008 edition is posted on the Manager's<br>Electronic Resource Center (<a href="http://erc.msh.org/">http://erc.msh.org/</a>), along with data from<br>the 1996 edition to the present. We encourage you to visit the site and<br>
explore special features that you can use to create custom lists of<br>medicines, compare your prices, and plan a budget.<br><br>To order a CD-ROM copy, visit MSH's eBookstore at<br><a href="http://www.msh.org/resource-center/ebookstore/">http://www.msh.org/resource-center/ebookstore/</a> , or e-mail us at<br>
<a href="mailto:bookstore@msh.org">bookstore@msh.org</a>.<br><br>If you would like to contribute your organization's price information to<br>the next edition of the Guide, please contact me at <a href="mailto:jfrye@msh.org">jfrye@msh.org</a>. I<br>
would be delighted to discuss this with you.<br><br>Julie Frye<br>Editor, International Drug Price Indicator Guide<br>E-mail: <a href="mailto:jfrye@msh.org">jfrye@msh.org</a><br>