Thailand to buy “Favipiravir” drug patent for domestic production

[webfact]

 

By Paphamon Arayasukawat

   

BANGKOK (NNT) - Thai government is working on buying the “Favipiravir” drug patent in order to stabilize domestic demands.

 

During a meeting of the cabinet, Minister of Public Health and Deputy Prime Minister, Anutin Charnvirakul informed the members that Thai Government Pharmaceutical Organization is negotiating for “Favipiravir” drug patent with a foreign organization who holds the patent in order to produce for domestic demands.

 

Meanwhile, the Favipiravir imported from Japan has already been distributed to all hospitals.

 

At the same time, private hospitals can also import the medicine without any import barriers.

 

In addition, PM Prayut Chan-O-Cha stressed that it is necessary to have most vaccination doses from all qualified producers. In order to distribute the vaccines to all citizens, all medical facilities including private hospitals will also be part of the distribution.

 

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[worgeordie]

Thailand needs more vaccines to PREVENT Covid 19, while they

buy antivirals for treatment  when you HAVE Covid 19, surley

its always best to prevent an illness than to try and cure it.

regards Worgeordie

[DLock]

"At the same time, private hospitals can also import the medicine without any import barriers."

 

You sure about that?

 

Thailand is not trying to buy the patent...and if they were, they would soon see how many zero's were in the price and just reverse engineer and copy it anyway.

[canopus1969]

The antiviral drug favipiravir is being investigated as a treatment for COVID-19 in people recovering at home and in other non-hospital settings - UK

[meechai]

37 minutes ago, worgeordie said:

Thailand needs more vaccines to PREVENT Covid 19, while they

buy antivirals for treatment  when you HAVE Covid 19, surley

its always best to prevent an illness than to try and cure it.

regards Worgeordie

 

I do not think  the vaccines (any of them) Prevent Covid

The reality is they are to lessen/lower the symptoms to make Covid recoverable

AFAIK ....It does not prevent, catching nor spreading of the virus

 

[mtls2005]

They're going all in on this.

 

Snake oil would be cheaper though.

[holy cow cm]

LOLS = Land of lip service

[connda]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

At the same time, private hospitals can also import the medicine without any import barriers.

 

In addition, PM Prayut Chan-O-Cha stressed that it is necessary to have most vaccination doses from all qualified producers. In order to distribute the vaccines to all citizens, all medical facilities including private hospitals will also be part of the distribution.

Lies above:  ????

Reality below: ????

Government says private sector has no need to order vaccines

All that is left is more lies to cover the original lies.

Edited April 29, 2021 by connda

[connda]

1 hour ago, mtls2005 said:

They're going all in on this.

 

Snake oil would be cheaper though.

The Thai hospitals are already dispensing the snake oil.  It's Thai herbal medicine called "Creat."

[internationalism]

they did not have to buy from japan the brand name 2mln pills for a very inflated price. Generic is made in china and india, and when the licence was cheap yet.

If they had any sense in planning they should buy licence over a year ago, when this medicine was proved to be effective for covid.

By now they would be a large exporter, and having all production as a back up for any coming wave, like this one

 

Edited April 29, 2021 by internationalism

[ukrules]

2 hours ago, internationalism said:

when this medicine was proved to be effective for covid.

Oh really?

[Pedrogaz]

Why don't they use TRIPS? This is exactly the situation it was designed for.

[chilli42]

I thought that Remdesivir (sold under the trade name Veclury) was the gold standard treatment for Covid at this point.  I don’t see any headlines saying that this is in the way.  Have not seen any clinical results for Favipiravir for Covid.  It’s only been proven on the flu virus.  What has the Thai government seen that is not in the public domain ... if anything?

[internationalism]

43 minutes ago, ukrules said:

Oh really?

it's one of only 4 medicines approved for covid.

I was looking to buy this medicines over a year ago, but is not available in thailand.

 

research from japan 10 days ago

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33902990/

 

this one a week ago some arab country

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33890544/

 

this one a few days ago from the UK, considering this medicine, as well as tamiflu, and several others, to introduce sometimes in the autumn. Tamiflu is available in thailand from the GPO.

https://www.bmj.com/content/373/bmj.n1077

[Caldera]

Does it actually work?

[cclub75]

1 hour ago, chilli42 said:

I thought that Remdesivir (sold under the trade name Veclury) was the gold standard treatment for Covid at this point.  I don’t see any headlines saying that this is in the way.

 

Sorry... You're late ????

 

https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/who-recommends-against-the-use-of-remdesivir-in-covid-19-patients

 

This drug... is indeed "gold". But just for Gilead.

[Kiujunn]

1 hour ago, Caldera said:

Does it actually work?

No

[Danderman123]

On 4/29/2021 at 4:06 PM, chilli42 said:

I thought that Remdesivir (sold under the trade name Veclury) was the gold standard treatment for Covid at this point.  I don’t see any headlines saying that this is in the way.  Have not seen any clinical results for Favipiravir for Covid.  It’s only been proven on the flu virus.  What has the Thai government seen that is not in the public domain ... if anything?

Remdesivir helps a little bit. The other stuff mentioned here has little or no clinical backing.

 

One thing nobody ever thinks about, one of these days, we are going to find that one of these unproven "Cures" may be just as likely to make it easier for the virus to infect people. Nobody ever talks about chemical formulations that pave the way for the virus to infect, but if you put enough different stuff in people's bodies, eventually one of them is going to be a problem, in terms of infectiousness. That's why clinical trials are so important, to determine the basic safety of a medication, even before its efficacy is determined.

[internationalism]

all those medicines, as well as ivermectin, are antivirals and long used around the world. They were already tested for safety, before marketed.

That's just drug re-purposing, the easiest to do. Trials are fast.

Chloroquine was approved for emergency use already in the early march 2020  

Edited April 30, 2021 by internationalism

[rcuthbert]

Not long ago, HIV was a death sentence - now it can be managed with antiretrovirals.

 

Hep C sufferers who endured the "6 months of hell" Interferon treatment only had a 50% recovery rate - now it can be quickly eradicated with antivirals.

 

Smallpox was eradicated with vaccines.

 

Polio was eradicated by vaccination in all countries - except Afghanistan and Pakistan.

 

Bubonic plague  - once thought of as "A trick of the Devil" - is now cured with antibiotics.

 

Covid is prolific and alarming, but take comfort in knowing that the best labs, filled with the brightest minds, are working towards vaccines and cures. The young and healthy can take dark comfort in the fact that generally "COVID-19 is often more severe in people who are older than 60 years or who have health conditions like lung or heart disease, diabetes or conditions that affect their immune system."

 

https://www.who.int/westernpacific/emergencies/covid-19/information/high-risk-groups#:~:text=COVID%2D19%20is%20often,their%20immune%20system.%E2%80%8B

 

 

[placeholder]

2 hours ago, internationalism said:

all those medicines, as well as ivermectin, are antivirals and long used around the world. They were already tested for safety, before marketed.

That's just drug re-purposing, the easiest to do. Trials are fast.

Chloroquine was approved for emergency use already in the early march 2020  

Ivermectin may turn out to be an antiviral, but it was created and has been used to kill parasitic worm infections. 

[Soikhaonoiken]

And how long will it take to set up to manufacture this drug, (thats if you could buy the paton) 

Just buy the dam drug from Japan instead of trying to make a few bucks on the side...