Lipitor - availability?

Does anyone know if Lipitor is available over the counter in either Sri
Lanka or Thailand from pharmacies.

Thanks

Real Lipitor is available OTC in BKK [you may have to go to one of the
pharmacies near a hospital] but its not cheap. I didn't find any generics
in BKK. Inexpensive Indian generics are available in Sri Lanka.


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A Mate wrote:
Does anyone know if Lipitor is available over the counter in either Sri
Lanka or Thailand from pharmacies.

Available at all pharmacies in the tourist areas of Bangkok without a
prescription.

Sri Lanka is a little too close to India, home of the fake drug
industry. Bangkok you usually don't have to worry about buying a fake
if you buy from a regular drug store.

On 28 Jan 2006 04:28:36 -0800, "Tchiowa" wrote:


A Mate wrote:
Does anyone know if Lipitor is available over the counter in either Sri
Lanka or Thailand from pharmacies.

Available at all pharmacies in the tourist areas of Bangkok without a
prescription.

Sri Lanka is a little too close to India, home of the fake drug
industry. Bangkok you usually don't have to worry about buying a fake
if you buy from a regular drug store.


Except birth control pills.


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Sri Lanka is a little too close to India, home of the fake drug
industry. Bangkok you usually don't have to worry about buying a fake
if you buy from a regular drug store.

India does not have a fake drug industry it has a generic drug industry
which supplies to a large parts of third world countries which would
not have any access to medicines of the rich developed countries if it
was not for indian pharmacy companies.

And also India manufactures a lot of drug formulas for most of the big
pharmacy companies of the world.

"Suman" wrote in message
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Sri Lanka is a little too close to India, home of the fake drug
industry. Bangkok you usually don't have to worry about buying a fake
if you buy from a regular drug store.

India does not have a fake drug industry it has a generic drug industry
which supplies to a large parts of third world countries which would
not have any access to medicines of the rich developed countries if it
was not for indian pharmacy companies.

And also India manufactures a lot of drug formulas for most of the big
pharmacy companies of the world.


Just because there is a big generic drug industry in India does not mean
there is not a counterfeit trade too.
I saw a long documentary on BBC TV I think about 1 year ago on fake and
unlicensed drugs from India. Yes, there is a large generic industry
producing effective cheaper drugs but they also visited places producing
completely useless fake drugs, mainly for export to Africa as far as I
remember.

This is an except from another earlier BBC article on the fake drugs
business to be found at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3331985.stm
"...

India's cabinet says it wants the death penalty for people who make fake
drugs, which have been blamed for a number of patient fatalities.



Consumer groups say the drugs carry legitimate brand names but have
incorrect ingredients.



Parliament will be asked to amend an existing drugs law following the
recommendations of an experts' panel.

....



WHO estimated up to 25% of medicines consumed in developing nations were
counterfeit or substandard.



It said the drugs could be harmful and even deadly.



India's pharmaceutical industry has an annual turnover of 200 billion rupees
($4.2 billion) but problems with inspection have allowed counterfeiters to
prosper.



Fake medicines rob legitimate companies of around $1 billion a year.



Ms Swaraj called the fake drugs industry "mass murder purely for profit",
the Press Trust of India reported.

...."

RAK wrote:

Fake medicines rob legitimate companies of around $1 billion a year.

ahhhh.... poor pharmaceuticals industry.... how can they survive being
"robbed" of a whole billion every year? bad india! bad!


michael

Suman wrote:
Sri Lanka is a little too close to India, home of the fake drug
industry. Bangkok you usually don't have to worry about buying a fake
if you buy from a regular drug store.

India does not have a fake drug industry it has a generic drug industry
which supplies to a large parts of third world countries which would
not have any access to medicines of the rich developed countries if it
was not for indian pharmacy companies.

No, it has a fake drug industry. There was a big special on BBC (IIRC).
The dealers were shown faking boxes so that they looked like named
pharmas and acknolwedged lower strength drugs. The investigation
started when patients in a hospital in Africa died when they were given
what the doctors thought were real drugs but were in fact India fakes.

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:01:40 GMT, the renowned michael
wrote:

RAK wrote:

Fake medicines rob legitimate companies of around $1 billion a year.

ahhhh.... poor pharmaceuticals industry.... how can they survive being
"robbed" of a whole billion every year? bad india! bad!


michael

The advantages of cooperating with a passive royalty collection system
for the rich countries do seem a bit dubious for the poorest
countries. Particularly when lives are concerned.


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Spehro Pefhany wrote:
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:01:40 GMT, the renowned michael
wrote:

RAK wrote:

Fake medicines rob legitimate companies of around $1 billion a year.

ahhhh.... poor pharmaceuticals industry.... how can they survive being
"robbed" of a whole billion every year? bad india! bad!


michael

The advantages of cooperating with a passive royalty collection system
for the rich countries do seem a bit dubious for the poorest
countries. Particularly when lives are concerned.

That billion dollars a year could well have been spent developing a
drug to cure malaria or AIDS or other disease. So how do the lives lost
by not developing drugs square with that philosophy?