Posted on 02/17/2023 11:26:21 AM PST by nickcarraway
The company took the decision after the business was being influenced by economic sanctions imposed on Russia after the invasion of Ukraine.
The US pharmaceutical company Viatris has informed the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade that the supply of the drug Viagra, in tablet format, has been suspended in the Russian market.
"Viatris LLC has informed us about the suspension of the supply of the drug Viagra in the pharmaceutical form of a pill", said the ministry, quoted by the Russian news agency TASS.
According to the American pharmaceutical company, the decision was taken after the business was influenced by economic sanctions imposed on Russia after its invasion of Ukraine. "Trade control, sanctions, the supply chain, and other challenges related to the conflict have impacted our operations," quoted The Sun.
The Russian authorities mentioned that domestic pharmaceutical companies have the capacity to carry out clinical trials with the drug, which has sildenafil as its active ingredient, in order to produce its own two versions of Viagra and ensure local production.
Do you know what Muse is?
so much for stiff, Russian laws
Now is not the time to go soft on Russia.
It sets precedence for China to withhold medications from the US. It's so smart of our companies to outsource their manufacturing.
If they just quit the Vodka they wouldn’t need the pills.
Nonsense. It’s a generic drug. They can import it from India if not directly due to sanctions than from grey market resellers.
Pretty stiff penalty
Russia will now have to hold honest erections.
It’s going to be hard to enforce this.
We’ll just keep getting them from India.
I mean, it makes no sense to make antibiotics and other critical medicines here, right?!
Substantial penalty for early withdrawal...?
My clan has never needed viagra. We must have above average virility! ;-)
Rhinocerotes.
Maybe Russians are stupid enough to pay 30 times as much for a drug as they need to?
https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/93119
In a weird paradox, it's never been cheaper -- and more expensive -- for men to treat themselves with sildenafil (Viagra), the mainstay of erectile-dysfunction therapy. And herein lies a tale about the bizarro world of drug pricing.
Generic versions of sildenafil cost as little as 44 cents per typical 50-mg dose in the U.S. when 30 pills are purchased, according to GoodRx.com. At that price, the doses needed to power a month's worth of daily intimate encounters add up to just $13.20, less than a Chipotle steak burrito with guacamole and a drink.
But equivalent brand-name Viagra pills cost at least $67.12 each, or $2,013.70 for 30. That's a remarkable markup of over 150 times the generic price, even though the pills share the same active ingredient and work the exact same way.
A MedPage Today investigation found that Viagra is perhaps the most extraordinary example of a curious phenomenon in the world of drug pricing -- brand-name medications whose prices go up despite the arrival of stiff competition from much-cheaper generics.
This isn't the way competition in capitalism is supposed to work, and it's hardly healthy for consumers. But some pharmaceutical companies are banking big-time on brand-name loyalty and ignorance about generics, and no one is going to tell them to knock it off.
Rhinocerotes.
But my kin came out of the Scottish Highlands and they do not approve of anything British.
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