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generics At Valeant each region has a unique mix of prescription brands, branded generics and OTC products. The general manager for Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Andean region discusses the company’s objectives for Spanish speaking Latin America and how it plans to leverage the recently acquired Bausch+Lomb business to…

R&D Andres Matesanz, general manager of ChemSwiss Mexico, shares his views on the Mexican API industry and its regulations as well as his personal ambitions for the company’s future.    You started the operations of ChemSwiss here in Mexico in January 2012. What mission did the headquarters entrust you with? The…

Siemens Siemens is the only company that covers the entire spectrum of diagnostics. The vice president of the healthcare division for Mesoamerica discusses the recent challenges the Mexican market has posed to med tech companies and its optimistic views for the coming years.     You were appointed VP Healthcare Mesoamerica…

ministry of health Walter Vigo, general coordinator of Parsalud, discusses the intertwining of traditional Andean methods of healthcare with more modern ones, and the organization’s commitment to helping mothers and newborns throughout Peru.   You are a medical doctor by profession – how did you come to lead Parsalud? I am a medical…

biotech As in human health, innovation is key in the animal health industry. The CEO and second generation at the head of Tornel presents the company’s most important milestones since its establishment back in 1976, how the Group started export operations to the Middle East as well as how it is collaborating…

universal healthcare Healthcare is one of the next items on President Peña Nieto’s busy agenda. The objective: moving Mexico towards universal healthcare coverage. The initiative was started at the beginning of 2000 by the previous government with the objective of ensuring in the long term that “any Mexican – employed or unemployed…

Boehringer Ingelheim Javier Castro came from Boehringer Ingelheim’s headquarters to run the Peruvian affiliate in January 2015, bringing with him a wealth of experience necessary to take the company to the next level. He discusses market access, reimbursement and new launches that BI plans to bring to Peru.   What are your…

MoH Dr. José Angel Cordova Villalobos shares his experience as former Minister of Health and illustrates how the unification of today’s fragmented healthcare system is the only way to provide effective healthcare to the Mexican population and how prevention is key to tackle the increasing challenges the country is facing due…

access Healthcare should not be seen as an expenditure, but rather as an investment. Mexico’s former minister of health and current dean at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health discusses how Mexico is moving towards effective universal coverage, the challenges the system is facing and the issues that remain.…

medical devices Mr Carlos Jimenez of B. Braun Aesculap sat down with us and shared his personal beliefs on Mexico’s market potential for medical equipment, how the country can create more momentum for the healthcare industry and the ethics and ethos of the company. What have been your milestones and challenges since…

rheumatology President of the Algerian League Against Rheumatism and leading rheumatologist discusses the state of the education sector with relation to the training up of medical specialists and raises the fact that the quality of healthcare services is inconsistent across different regions. Can you introduce yourself, and introduce rheumatology, your heart activity?…

healthcare The co-president of a research group dedicated to Euro-Mediterranean health sector issues analyses commonalities across the North African region and calls for a coordinated response to shared challenges. He also delivers a comparative assessment of the Algerian market. What is your opinion about the evolution of the Algerian pharmaceutical industry and…