Generic drugs for public health in India:………unbranded versus branded generics

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Year : 2017 \| Volume : 5 \| Issue : 2 \| Page : 48

Generic drugs for public health in India:………unbranded versus branded generics MM Nagargoje¹, SS Chaudhary², HA Siddiqui³, KS Misra⁴, SK Garg⁵ ¹ Associate Professor, Department of Community Medicine, S. N. Medical College, Agra (Uttar Pradesh), India ² Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine, S. N. Medical College, Agra (Uttar Pradesh), India ³ Post Graduate Student, Department of Pharmacology, AIIMS, New Delhi, India ⁴ Professor and Head, Department of Community Medicine, S. N. Medical College, Agra (Uttar Pradesh), India ⁵ Professor and Head, Department of S.P.M., L.L.R.M. Medical College, Meerut (Uttar Pradesh), India Correspondence Address: M M Nagargoje Associate Professor, Department of Community Medicine, S. N. Medical College, Agra (Uttar Pradesh) India Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None DOI: 10.4103/2321-7006.302541

India is uniquely placed in the world of generics, as we produce one of the cheapest drugs of world and yet there is further scope of cost reduction. There have been ongoing arguments for use of generic drugs in India but the fact of the matter is that we are almost always using only the generic types of drugs in India. Among generics, branded types of generics are most widely used but they cost more than the unbranded variety of generics.



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