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Generic Drugs for Rare Disease Cure
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- The Union Health Ministry in India has introduced generic drugs to treat four rare diseases.
- These are Tyrosinemia-Type 1, Gaucher’s Disease, Wilson’s Disease, and Dravet-Lennox Gastaut Syndrome.
- It is a special initiative by manufacturing four types of homegrown 'Made in India' drugs for rare diseases for the first time.
- The Central Government has prioritised 13 rare diseases and sickle cell disease.
- A rare disease is a health condition of a particularly low prevalence that affects a small number of people.
- Currently, there are eight types of generic drugs and among them, four types of drugs are available in India and another four types of drugs will be available next year.
- Generic drugs are medications that are equivalent to brand-name drugs in terms of active ingredients, dosage, safety, strength, quality.
- These are typically sold at a lower cost.
- Once the patent protection for a brand-name drug expires, other pharmaceutical companies can produce and sell generic versions.
- The price of these unbranded generic versions of medicine for the four rare diseases will be 100 times lower than the current market value of the branded drugs.
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