Installation Features 'Forbidden' Medicines Denied to New Zealanders
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The 12th Chamber of Public Law of the Court of Justice of São Paulo (TJSP) maintained the decision of the Vara da Fazenda Pública de Araçatuba that denied the free supply of medicine (Wegovy) for weight loss to women with obesity. The medicine has a record at the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa), but is not included in the lists of the Unified Health System (SUS). The author claimed that the drug would be necessary for the treatment …
Installation features 'forbidden' medicines denied to New Zealanders
Patients waiting for life-changing medicines to be funded say people should not have to fundraise, go into debt, or travel overseas for treatments and therapies that could be administered here.
Behind the patient campaigns, the pharma giants profiting from public pressure
Comment: Auckland’s Forbidden Pharmacy highlights 200 unfunded drugs as patient advocates push politicians for more money. Listening to them, you’d think NZ was a cheapskate in funding healthcare – but in fact, it’s in the top half of the OECD. Jonathan Milne reports.
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