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0280/2021 - CARACTERIZACIÓN DE LAS SOLICITUDES DE IMPORTACIÓN DE MEDICAMENTOS VITALES NO DISPONIBLES AÑOS 2016 Y 2017 EN COLOMBIA.

Author:

• Luz Andrea Olivares - Olivares, L. A. - <laolivarese@unal.edu.co, luzaolies@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3507

Co-author(s):

• Claudia Marcela Vargas-Peláez - Vargas-Peláez, C. M. - <cmvargasp@unal.edu.co>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5011-8718
• Jose Julian Lopez - Lopez, J. J. - <jjlopezg@unal.edu.co>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5264-6212
• Francisco Rossi - Rossi, F. - <frossi@ifarma.org>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6172-5852
• María Fernanda Chacón-Garzón - Chacón-Garzón, M.F. - <mfchacong@unal.edu.co>


Abstract:

This cross-sectional descriptive observationalIn this study includes all, the import requests for vital medicines not available (MVND) presented atsubmitted to INVIMA during the 2016-2017 period, as well as and the records of recovery requests presented at submitted to the ADRES, during by MVND, in the same period. 2321 import applications 2016-2017, were analyzed, of which. Of the 2321 MVND import requests, 76% were authorized. A total of 88 applicants were identified, 73 therapeutic subgroups according to the ATC code and 195 active ingredients applied for. 66.6principles, as well as 368 diagnoses were identified. 66% of the patients registered in the import applications are linked to the contributory regime and in, to a lesser extent, to the subsidized regime and to the special or exception regime. A total of 368 diagnoses were identified in the requests for specific patients in the category of clinical emergency.exceptional regime. In judicial recovery requests associated with MVND, it was observed that the amount requested for recovery was $ 25,315,191,295.USD 8,577,583, equivalent to 38,483 UPCs. The drugs most requested as MVND are the reflection of public health problemsresults showed that deserve to be addressedthe implementation of Decree 481 of 2004 has been useful to guarantee access to medicines for rare diseases, although it is not alien to the structural inequity of access to health services and medicines of the SGSSS and that, on some occasions, resort to judicial means, distorting medical criteria and unbalancing they generate impact, not only in public health, if not within the budget allocated to health spendingbudget, either because of the high cost of importing them or because of the lack of regulation of these within the national market.

Keywords:

Access to Essential Medicines and Health Technologies, Rare Diseases, Orphan Drugs, Drug Costs, Colombia.

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Olivares, L. A., Vargas-Peláez, C. M., Lopez, J. J., Rossi, F., Chacón-Garzón, M.F.. CARACTERIZACIÓN DE LAS SOLICITUDES DE IMPORTACIÓN DE MEDICAMENTOS VITALES NO DISPONIBLES AÑOS 2016 Y 2017 EN COLOMBIA.. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2021/Aug). [Citado em 21/01/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/caracterizacion-de-las-solicitudes-de-importacion-de-medicamentos-vitales-no-disponibles-anos-2016-y-2017-en-colombia/18179?id=18179



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