Civio investigations
medicine prices
We investigate opacity in the pricing and financing of medicines, uncovering confidential agreements between governments and pharmaceutical companies, and how these practices affect the equity of access to treatments and the sustainability of the healthcare system.
Spanish public hospitals pay 307,200 euros for each personalised childhood leukaemia treatment
The real cost that public administrations pay for CAR-T therapies is negotiated in secret, although the Ministry of Health does publish the maximum price it is willing to pay.
Numbers that don't fit
Some countries pay for their vaccines more than others with higher incomes. The opacity in the sector hides the cost for governments and prevents them from demanding better prices.
11 days' wages to buy an asthma inhaler
14 medicines, 61 countries. Compare and analyse the differences between them.
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