Peru

Peru's Health Minister, Oscar Ugarte, has announced a US$200mn investment into the country's health sector in order to improve the care provided to patients in public heath facilities.... 2010-02-12

Peru's Ministry of Health has created a website to provide patients with information on where they can purchase a specific drug, as well as the price at which the medicine is sold... 2010-01-20

Japan's largest drugmaker, Takeda, has announced that it plans to enter the South American drug market via the acquisition of a generic drugmaker in the region, though the company... 2009-11-30

Peru's Directorate General of Pharmaceuticals, Inputs and Drugs (DIGEMID), part of the Ministry of Health (MINSA), has implemented a Law on Pharmaceutical Products, Medical Devices... 2009-11-27

The Peruvian pharmaceutical market is the smallest in BMI's coverage of the Latin American region. Nevertheless, Peru offers considerable longer-term benefits to foreign companies,... 2009-11-25

It has emerged that Ecuador may be pulling out of the EU-Community of Andean Nation (CAN) free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations as a result of disagreements over the EU's intellectual... 2009-06-19

Cancer is a growing problem in Peru. BMI's Burden of Disease Database (BoDD) reveals a staggering 322,849 disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) were lost to the disease in Peru in... 2009-02-16