Health Equity And Access To Care

Eli Lilly and Company has set a parity target for its diabetes and obesity medicines: treat as many people in low- and middle-income countries as in high-income countries by 2040. The commitment carries no price mechanism, so progress will be judged against Lilly's own annual Sustainability Report. #SyenzaNews #globalhealth #pharmaceuticals #MarketAccess

A National Press Foundation briefing on drug prices and workforce shortages: separate list price from net price, ask which goal a policy serves, and check whether more clinicians really mean more appointments. #SyenzaNews #HealthEconomics #MarketAccess

Germany drug pricing policies are now the subject of a US Section 301 investigation. AbbVie's chief counsel, Perry Siatis, has filed written evidence and testified that government price setting, mandatory rebates and reimbursement restrictions undercut the incentives that fund new medicines. He also cites a German-French working group on keeping innovative medicines available. #SyenzaNews #MarketAccess #DrugPricing #HEOR

Minimal stimulation IVF lowers the cost of a cycle. A health economist and a US patient advocate told an IFFS webinar that the savings case, and the bill patients carry, are both unsettled. #SyenzaNews #IVF #MarketAccess #HealthEconomics

Infarmed has launched INOV@INFARMED, a new network connecting Portugal's medicines regulator with 26 universities and research institutes to advance regulation and health technology assessment. #SyenzaNews #HTA #RegulatoryScience #HealthInnovation

The European Commission's EU Public Procurement Act would make quality, not price, the default for public tenders. EFPIA supports the shift, with one warning: resilience should not become local-content rules. #SyenzaNews #EUProcurement #Medicines #MarketAccess #HealthPolicy

South Africa has initiated 55,123 people on twice-yearly lenacapavir PrEP in the programme's first 94 days. Demand is strongest in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal; branded supply, second-dose retention and the 2027 generic tender are the real constraints. #SyenzaNews #HIVPrevention #Lenacapavir #MarketAccess

Trump's Most Favored Nation drug pricing policy is already delaying new medicine launches in Europe. Brussels journalist Christoffer Frendesen unpacks the silence, the data, and why it may outlast the Trump presidency. #SyenzaNews #MarketAccess #DrugPricing

Portuguese private health insurers cleared €1 billion in six months as premiums climbed 9.1% to €466 a year. #SyenzaNews #HealthInsurance #Portugal #MarketAccess

Insurers are spending billions on breakthrough medicines, but the tests that decide who gets them are still an afterthought. Kathryn Phillips lays out four reforms to link drug and diagnostic policy pathways. #SyenzaNews #diagnostics #healtheconomics #MarketAccess

France reimbursed 90% of drug costs in 2024, yet many patients still feel shortchanged. Maurice-Pierre Planel breaks down the numbers behind the paradox. #SyenzaNews #MarketAccess #PharmaPolicy

South Africa’s health department pushes back on claims that state tenders are hollowing out pharmaceutical manufacturing, arguing the sector’s real pressures are regulatory rather than the result of procurement decisions.