Ministry Of Health Wrestling To Prevent Price Hikes

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Lithuania's Ministry of Health is facing significant challenges relating to providing access to affordable medicines. With the state's fiscal situation looking tenuous and medicine value-added tax (VAT) hikes due to be implemented in July 2009, the State Medicines Agency (SAM) has implemented a programme for improving availability and price reduction - largely geared towards attaining price reductions from pharmaceutical