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Fiona Azura Laddie Guevarra Vince Herce Leah Sosa Diego Torres

House of Representatives Secretary- General Marilyn B. BaruaYap

Secretary of Senate Emma Lirio-Reyes

Speaker of the House Prospero C. Nograles

Senate President Manny Villar

President: Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Act No. 8293 or Intellectual Property Code Act No. 6675 or Generics Act of 1988
Act No. 5921 or Pharmacy Law

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SEC. 2. Declaration of Policy. - It is the policy of the State to protect public health and, when the public interest or circumstances of extreme urgency so require, it shall adopt appropriate measures to promote and ensure access to affordable quality drugs and medicines for all.

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President has the Power to impose maximum retail prices on drugs.

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President has the Power to impose maximum retail prices on drugs. (Sec 17) Secretary of Department of Health monitors prices of drugs and medicines (Sec 18)

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Power to RECOMMEND maximum retail prices

Mr. President, I suggest to the set price of X to 1000 pesos.

No lets make it 1001 pesos

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Power to RECOMMEND maximum retail prices Implement measures that can reduce costs of drugs

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Power to RECOMMEND maximum retail prices Implement measures that can reduce costs of drugs Can create bodies/orgs that can help him Can post penalty fines against people who violate the price regulation. (50,000 - 5,000,000 pesos)

Treat illness/diseas e

Prevent illness/disease

Prevent pregnancy

Anesthetic Agents

Intravenous Fluids

Those that the Secretary of Health deems necessary

DIABETES

Endocrine Disorder
disease in which your blood glucose, or sugar, levels are too high. 2 Types

Type 1

Body doesnt make insulin Blood sugar too high because body doesnt use or produce Insulin normally

Type 2

Too much glucose = damage to eyes, kidneys and nerves.

Can also cause heart disease/stroke

INSULIN

Control blood sugar in people who have diabetes

Insulin is in a class of medication called hormones Helps sugar move from blood to body tissues where it is used for energy. Stops liver from producing sugar

Hypertension

Cardiovascular Disease
Persistently elevated blood pressure Can lead to damaged organs Normal blood pressure -120/80 Hypertension 140/90 above

Medicine used to treat this?

ENALAPRIL

Used to treat high blood pressure

Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors

Decreasing chemicals that tighten the blood vessels

Catecholamine Renin

ASTHMA

Lung disease
Inflames and narrows the air ways Effects

Wheezing Chest Tightness Shortness of breath Coughing

Ventolin

Ventolin
Used to treat breathing disorders

Asthma

Chronic Bronchitis
Etc.

Relaxes the muscles in the walls of the small airways in the lungs.

DRUGS THAT PREVENT DISEASES

Immunoglobulin

Administration of antibodies to prevent or treat diseases.

Obtained from blood of people who have recently been exposed to these diseases Prevents diseases such as chickenpox, rabies etc.

Vaccine

Contains parts of microbes that have been killed or weakened

Allows the immune system to adapt and learn how to fight the viruses Prevents diseases such as chickenpox, rabies etc..

Intravenous Fluids

Estrogens What are they?

What about Progestins?

Conclusion

IS THIS LAW EFFECTIVE?

According to Growth Revolution Magazine, there are several programs that should make medicines more affordable under the new law.

Parallel Importation" of Patented Cheaper Meds

Increased Production of Generic Medicine

Compulsory Licensing of Patented Drugs

Reimbursement by the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (Philhealth) of money spent by consumers on drugs

Imposition of a Maximum Retail Price (MRP) on Drugs

Drug Consignment Selling Scheme

IS THIS LAW EFFECTIVE?

parallel importation of patented cheaper medicine

increased production of generic medicine, compulsory licensing of patented drugs

reimbursement by the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (Philhealth) of money spent by consumers on drugs
imposition of a maximum retail price (MRP) on drugs

drug consignment selling scheme.

IS THIS LAW EFFECTIVE?

It is implemented throughout the country but it is not very effective in a sense that the prices of medicines here in the Philippines are the second highest in Asia. This law should be improved. And it should mostly affect the poor that could not afford the high prices of medicine

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