Showing posts with label treatment coverage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label treatment coverage. Show all posts
Saturday, February 7, 2015
Portugal: Portugal agrees to treat 13,000 hepatitis C patients
LISBON, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- The Portuguese government has agreed to treat up to 13,000 people infected with hepatitis C in the next three years, Portuguese Minister of Health Paulo Macedo said on Friday.
"We will be able to treat more sufferers in a fairer way. We will open way to initiate the eradication, the elimination of the disease," he told a press conference.
He said that the government would pay every treatment undertaken by sufferers of hepatitis C.
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Tuesday, December 30, 2014
Israel: New Hep C treatment tops formulary spending list
Ministry of Health recommends NIS 300 million worth of medications to be subsidized by state in 2015
The Ministry of Health published Tuesday a list of drugs, medications and new treatments set to be fully or partially subsidized by the state in the year 2015. A special Health Ministry committee debated the formulary for several weeks, finally selecting the treatments late Monday night from nearly NIS 3 billion (about $860 million) worth of medications.
The committee’s recommendations are expected to be passed into law in early 2015.
Close to NIS 300 million (close to $86 million) will be allocated towards the various medications, with nearly a third of the budget dedicated to a new treatment for Hepatitis C.
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