medical drug prices

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medical drug prices • 13 min read

Piled-up debts, missing medicines: Sisi cuts back powers of Unified Procurement Authority

Mostafa Hosny | UPA’s debt crisis has led to severe drug shortages and higher out-of-pocket costs for patients

21 September 2025

pharmaceutical companies • 30 min read

At the mercy of Big Pharma

Mostafa Hosny | These companies' dominance extends beyond even the authority of nations themselves.

1 August 2024

corruption • 17 min read

Why is the medical supplies shortage crisis in hospitals getting worse?

Mostafa Hosny | Critics say the UPA is 'profit-driven' and does little to regulate medical supply prices

12 March 2024

medical drug prices • 36 min read

How pharma companies skirted regulations to make ‘Limitless’ profit

Mostafa Hosny | An unregulated food supplement market has been a boon for pharma companies, doctors and regulators

9 January 2024

Administrative Control Authority • 15 min read

As COVID-19 panic builds, pharmacy shelves run out of vital drugs

Hadeer El-Mahdawy | People are sensing that there is a crisis, so they are also buying more.

13 April 2020

climate change • 21 min read

Mike Davis on pandemics, super-capitalism and the struggles of tomorrow

Sharif Abdel Kouddous | What are the political, economic and environmental structures that paved the way for this outbreak?

30 March 2020

devaluation • 11 min read

Making ends meet: 6 stories of household budgeting

Six people with different incomes explain how the economic crisis is affecting them

1 February 2017

medical drug prices • 9 min read

In search of medication in Egypt

Luiz Sanchez | Currency devaluation and government policy continue to impact availability of medication in Egypt.

29 November 2016

medical drug prices • 7 min read

Will a Cabinet decree to increase pharmaceutical prices save the market?

Pesha Magid | Amany Aly’s newborn son has been sick twice in the last three months with a cough and cold, nothing

22 May 2016

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Opinion

Heba Wanis

Egypt will not patent new hepatitis C drug

Local newspapers recently reported that the first batch of sofosbuvir, the new drug for treating the

23 May 2014

News

devaluation • 5 min read

Drug prices set to increase

26 May 2024

medical drug prices • 6 min read

Pharmaceutical industry in crisis after pound flotation, industry heads lobby for resolution

14 November 2016

inflation • 3 min read

Core, annual inflation hit 7-year highs in June

10 July 2016

food prices • 3 min read

Intelligence services promise medical and food supplies for Minya, Assiut

27 March 2016

medical drug prices • 4 min read

Social media campaign highlights medication shortages in Egypt

6 December 2015

Hepatitis C • 12 min read

Prevention efforts, new drugs offer hope for an end to hepatitis

28 April 2015

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