16:45 25.10.2016

Health ministry to buy Ukrainian antiretroviral drugs meeting requirements

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Health ministry to buy Ukrainian antiretroviral drugs meeting requirements

Ukraine's Health Ministry will buy antiretroviral drugs made in Ukraine if they meet the ministry's technical requirements, acting Health Minister Ulana Suprun has said.

"Everything that is bought using budget funds and passes the ministry [the Health Ministry] will go through international organizations that open tenders for everyone who can meet our technical requirements. Ukrainian manufacturers will have access to public procurement if they meet technical requirements," she said at a press conference in Kyiv on Tuesday.

She also said that Ukrainian pharmaceutical manufacturers could take part in procurement tenders held by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

"The Global Fund has their own tender process and they are convincing us that Ukrainian manufacturers will be attracted to the process," she said.

Deputy Head of the national council for fighting Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS Dmytro Sherembei said that the WHO prequalification requirement making by international organizations during procurement of HIV/AIDS drugs was lodged by patients 12 years ago.

"The prequalification requirement is a requirement lodged by patients 12 years ago, as then it was the only quality protection system in Ukraine. Only products bought under AIDS program require the WHO prequalification. This system was introduced in the world to protect patients. Then it was the minimum quality standard," he said.

Sherembei said that there are pharmaceutical companies in Ukraine passing the WHO prequalification now.

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