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survey profiles and reports are available as follows

country & survey date	survey reports and other material
Armenia, Nov 2001 contact details	brief survey notes
Brazil, Rio de Janeiro State, Nov 2001 contact details	brief survey notes
Cameroon, May 2002 contact details	brief survey notes
Chad, May 2004 contact details	brief survey notes survey report pharmaceutical sector profile summary survey report (in French only)
China, Shandong Province, Nov 2004 contact details	survey report presentation summary survey report
China, Shanghai, Sep 2006 contact details	survey report summary survey report
El Salvador, Nov 2006 contact details	addendum survey report
Ethiopia, Sep 2004 contact details	summary survey report survey report
Fiji, Sep 2004 contact details	brief survey notes survey report
Ghana, May 2002 contact details	brief survey notes
Ghana, Oct 2004 contact details	survey report summary survey report
India, Chennai, Jan 2004 contact details
India, Haryana, Oct 2004 contact details
India, Karnataka, Nov 2004 contact details
India, Maharashtra (12 districts), Oct 2004 contact details
India, Maharashtra (4 regions), Jan 2005 contact details	survey report
India, Rajasthan, Jun 2003 contact details	brief survey notes survey report
India, West Bengal, Dec 2004 contact details	survey report
Indonesia, Aug 2004 contact details	survey report presentation survey summary report
Jordan, May 2004 contact details	survey report summary report
Kazakhstan, Nov 2004 contact details	survey report
Kenya, Nov 2001 contact details	brief survey notes
Kenya, Nov 2004 contact details	survey report addendum national pharmaceutical sector form summary survey report
Kuwait, Jun 2004 contact details	survey report presentation addendum summary survey report
Kyrgyzstan, Feb 2005 contact details	survey report presentation (English) presentation (Russian) survey summary report (English) survey summary report (Russian)
Lebanon, Feb 2004 contact details	brief survey notes survey report presentation
Malaysia, Oct 2004 contact details	survey report presentation
Mali, Mar 2004 contact details	pharmaceutical sector profile summary survey report (in French only) survey report Formulaire du Secteur Pharmaceutique National
Mongolia, Nov 2004 contact details	pharmaceutical sector profile survey report
Morocco, Apr 2004 contact details	survey report survey summary report
Nigeria, Sep 2004 contact details	survey report
Pakistan, Jul 2004 contact details	survey report summary survey report
Peru, May 2002 contact details	brief survey notes
Peru, Sep 2005 contact details	survey report
Philippines, Jun 2002 contact details	brief survey notes
Philippines, Feb 2005 contact details	survey report summary survey report
South Africa, Gauteng Province, Nov 2004 contact details	survey report addendum
South Africa, KwaZulu Natal State, Sep 2001 contact details	brief survey notes
Sri Lanka, Oct 2001 contact details	brief survey notes
Sudan, Jun 2005 contact details	survey report (available soon)
Syria, Dec 2003 contact details	survey report presentation summary survey report
Tajikistan, Feb 2005 contact details	survey report
Tanzania, Sep 2004 contact details	survey report summary survey report
Thailand, Oct 2006 contact details	survey summary report survey report
Tunisia, Mar 2004 contact details	survey report English survey report French
Uganda, Apr 2004 contact details	summary survey report survey report
Ukraine, Sep 2007 contact details	Essential medicines Palliative care medicines
Yemen, Jul 2006 contact details	survey report summary survey report

If you have questions about one of these surveys, please contact the survey manager (see the 'contact details' page for each survey).

Important information about survey data

Public sector procurement prices are prices that governments or other purchasers pay to procure medicines for use in the public sector. In some countries, medicines are only procured by the government (often via a central tender). In others, various agencies also procure for the public sector e.g. in Lebanon medicines are procured by the government and UNICEF. In some countries, public sector facilities obtain medicines via various stores e.g. in Uganda medicines are obtained from the National Medical Store and the Joint Medical Store. In other countries, medicines are procured both from a central store and local purchasing, or solely by local purchasing.

In the India surveys, procurement prices represent the prices paid by the public sector facilities. In some states there were no distribution costs (so the price paid by the facility was the tender price) but in others variable components costs applied such as handling charges and/or taxes. Footnotes have been included where HAI was advised that distribution costs are included in the procurement price.

WHO and HAI recommend analysing all the price component costs (mark-ups, taxes etc) as a medicine goes through the distribution chain from manufacturer to patient. As it is often very difficult to obtain the manufacturer’s selling price for a medicine, WHO and HAI recommend you work back from the patient price, assessing the type and amount of each component such as VAT, pharmacy mark-up, wholesale mark-up, importer mar-ups, import tax etc. From this you can assess the manufacturers selling price (for locally produced products) or the price of imported products. Please be aware that survey managers may have experienced difficulties identifying whether these products are sold as CIF, FOB, ex-factory etc. Comparisons should be made with caution.