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0386/2024 - Government spending on antiretrovirals in Brazil and its main determinants
Gastos governamentais com antirretrovirais no Brasil e seus principais determinantes

Author:

• Graziela Ferrero Zucoloto - Zucoloto, G.F - <graziela.fz@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2398-6680

Co-author(s):

• Carolinne Thays Scopel - Scopel, CT - <carol.thays@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3254-2800
• Pedro Villardi - Villardi, P. - <pedro.villardi@world-psi.org>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7788-6055
• Felipe de Carvalho Borges da Fonseca - Fonseca, C.B - <felipe@abiaids.org.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1070-0049
• Susana Rodrigues Cavalcanti van der Ploeg - van der Ploeg, S.R.C. - <susanaploeg@abiaids.org.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3342-8260
• Leonardo Szigethy - Szigethy, L. - <leonardoszigethy@hotmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1841-8515


Abstract:

The construction of public policies for the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS in Brazil is a history of struggle that unites sanitarians, researchers and activists since the 1980s. An important part of this path is linked to the production and distribution of antiretroviral drugs (ARV), initiatives to reduce the price of ARV and civil society mobilizations for the guarantee of rights, which contributed to create one of the most successful programs to combat the disease in the country. world. Based on this history, this study aimed to analyze government spending on the acquisition of ed ARVs in the period between 2005 and 2020, making a comparison with international prices, in the light of determinants related to patent disputes, voluntary licensing, PDP and ARV price reduction initiatives. Among other results, it was possible to observe that there was no immediate relationship between the end of the patent concession and the reduction of prices. Filings of other patent applications and the lack of nationally registered competitors, even after patent expiration, can be significant factors in maintaining high prices.

Keywords:

Anti-Retroviral Agents, HIV, Drug Price, Intellectual Property of Pharmaceutic Products and Process.

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Zucoloto, G.F, Scopel, CT, Villardi, P., Fonseca, C.B, van der Ploeg, S.R.C., Szigethy, L.. Government spending on antiretrovirals in Brazil and its main determinants. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2024/Nov). [Citado em 21/05/2026]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/government-spending-on-antiretrovirals-in-brazil-and-its-main-determinants/19434?id=19434&id=19434



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