Analysis of minimum target prices for production of entecavir to treat hepatitis B in high- and low-income countries

Background: In 2013, an estimated 686,000 people died from hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection worldwide. Mass treatment programmes for hepatitis B will require very low drug costs. International treatment guidelines recommend first-line monotherapy with either entecavir or tenofovir disoproxil fumara...

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Main Authors: Andrew Hill, Dzintars Gotham, Graham Cooke, Sanjay Bhagani, Isabelle Andrieux-Meyer, Jennifer Cohn, Joseph Fortunak
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-04-01
Series:Journal of Virus Eradication
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2055664020304842