BMI View: The Brazilian government has become increasingly proactive in supporting localpharmaceutical industry through partnership deals with multinational pharmaceutical companies. Thegovernment aims to overcome the drug pricing barrier, expanding access to essential medicines for localpatients and promoting local drug production. However, we believe multinationals in partnership dealswith the Brazilian government will eventually lose their market shares to local producers.Headline Expenditure Projections? Pharmaceuticals: BRL52.4bn (US$26.8bn) in 2012 to BRL57.0bn (US$27.5bn) in 2013; +8.7% in localcurrency terms and 2.7% in US dollars terms. Forecast down fro...
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