Spending on drugs up, data say

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Canadians spent about Can$11.4 bil on prescriptions and Can$3.3 bil on over-the-counter drugs in 2000, up from Can$2.6 bil and Can$1.2 bil, respectively, in 1985, according to the Canadian Institute for Health Information. Some 69% of drug costs are paid for by out-of-pocket or by private insurers. About Can$1 bil worth of drugs are received by those receiving medically necessary hospital care, and these are the only costs guaranteed to be covered by healthcare. According to the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, a national pharmacare plan would cost about Can$3.2 bil/yr, but would lower overall drug costs by Can$650 mil/yr. During 2000, drug spending was Can$478 per capita, and of the Can$95 bil spent on healthcare last year, 15.5% was for drugs. A pie chart shows the distribution of health expenditures during 1998 in Canada.

Canada, Government expenditures, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Pharmaceutical and Medicine Manufacturing, Government domestic functions, Sales & consumption, Drugs, Administration of Public Health Programs, Health Programs, Statistical Data Included, Statistics, Public health

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Global pressures building for low-cost AIDS drugs

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The International AIDS Conference, which was held in Durban, South Africa in 2000, was the focal point for a global campaign to make AIDS drugs more widely available to patients. Humanitarian organizations, such as Doctors Without Borders, are pressuring multinational corporations to lower the prices of AIDS medications, a $350-billion-per-year industry.

Product information, Pharmaceutical Preparation Manufacturing, South Africa, Pharmaceutical preparations, Conferences, meetings and seminars, AIDS (Disease), Doctors Without Borders

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