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Australia to Include 4 New Hepatitis C Drugs on National Formulary
March 8, 2016
Australia’s Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme has listed four new hepatitis C drugs on its subsidized formulary.
Priced between $6.20 and $38.30 per prescription, the drugs include Gilead’s Sovaldi and Harvoni, Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Daklinza and Clinect’s ribavirin.
The drugs are available to patients over the age of 18 with chronic hepatitis C, and a complete course of treatment ranges from eight to 24 weeks, depending on the person’s genotype and treatment history.
In the U.S., Sovaldi costs roughly $1,000 per pill.