Evaluating medicine prices, availability and affordability in Bangladesh using World Health Organisation and Health Action International methodology

Table 1 Overall Mean Percentage Availability of Survey Medicines in Different Sectors and by Different Medicine Types

	Public hospitals (%)	Private retail (%)	Private clinics (%)	n
	Lowest price generic
All	37	63	54	61
MEDICINE type
NCD	27	57	50	36
Infectious	48	68	56	21
Uncategorized	68	85	83	4
Essential medicines
In EML	36	62	53	51
Not in EML	41	69	61	10
Sample List
Global CORE	52	77	71	14
SupplementaRY	33	59	49	47
	Originator brand
All	n.a.	4	2	61

Source: Author’s data
Note: n.a: not applicable. Originator branded medicines are not found in the public sector. N: number of survey medicines

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