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2015-05-04 Africa North
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15 million Egyptians infected with Hepatitis C: health minister, Indian factory launched
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[AlAhram] An Indian factory is being launched in Egypt to produce drugs to help cure Hepatitis C with the same active pharmaceutical ingredient as the US-approved drug Sovaldi
| Efficacy will no doubt be somewhere between zero and 100% of the comparable American product, just as such things are in India. On the other hand, the local product will be ever so much cheaper. |
Some 15 million Egyptians suffer from Hepatitis C- 22 percent of the population- Health Minister Adel Adawy said on Sunday.
Adawy's comments came during the opening of an Indian factory that will produce a drug to cure hepatitis C using the same active pharmaceutical ingredient as the US-approved drug Sovaldi.
Sofosbuvir -- commercially named Sovaldi -- was approved in the United States in December 2013 and entered Egypt in October 2014.
Adawy said the factory, which constitutes eight production lines, is set to provide half a million units, state news agency MENA reported.
Last year, Egypt's health ministry brokered a deal with US biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences to import the drug at a cost of $900, down from its cost in the US of $84,000 for a three-month treatment.
Gilead at the time confirmed signing a licensing agreement with seven Indian companies to develop and market the drug, as well as saying that they can set the price for it and receive a complete technology transfer of their manufacturing process.
Egypt has the highest prevalence of the Hepatitis C virus (HCV) in the world according to the World Health Organization. Every year there are 170,000-200,000 new HCV cases in Egypt. 
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