Study of price variations between generic medicines and princeps in Senegal

Introduction: Generic drugs constitute a major tool for regulating drug expenses insofar as they allow each patient to benefit from best suited therapeutic strategy to their pathology, under same safety conditions, but at a significantly lower cost. The purpose of our work was to study price variations between generic and princeps in Senegal. Methodology: Basedon Laborex Software, we first made a reasoned choice of seventy-five (75) generic drugs. After calculating the difference between the public price of each generic drug and that of its original drug, we proceeded togenerics classification according prices difference. Results and discussion: An increase in price variations has been noted between generics, but also between generics and princeps. A low availability of generics in INNs, and generics intended for chronic diseases and pediatric management. Conclusion: These inadequacies both in generic pricesvariation, as well as generics availability used in management of diabetes and hypertension, raised the problem of generic medicines policy in Senegal.