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distribution Although Chile is a relatively small market, with only 17 million inhabitants, its geography makes it a challenging environment for logistics and distribution services. Chile stretches over 4,300 km along the southwest coast of South America, a distance roughly the same as that from San Francisco to New York. At…

Pfizer Edgardo Vázquez, Pfizer’s country manager for the Argentina Region, discusses the company’s investment strategies across their newly established business units and a few of the unique challenges presented by the Argentinean market.   How have Pfizer’s goals for Argentina changed over the last few years, and what is your strategy…

medical devices The CEO and one of the founders of Lexel explains how the company adapts its medical devices to the specifications required by their international customers.   Why did Lexel enter into the medical device market and most important, where did you see the opportunities when creating this company? From the…

regulation Carlos Chiale, National Administrator of ANMAT, discusses the agency’s latest strategy implementation and its pioneering work in the area of fighting drug falsification.   Could you provide a historical overview of ANMAT, its main achievements and current activities today? Since its creation in 1992, ANMAT has performed activities intended for…

UAE How quickly can a country truly transform its healthcare system, while making it sustainable for the future? The mindset of Emiratis is that anything that is feasible and beneficial for the country should and will be done, regardless of the cost. This is why health authorities have been moving at…

doctors MMA’s president shares the reasons why Malaysia is ranked today third in terms of healthcare quality, with a very efficient public system, high quality doctors and strong government support. However, the situation could change as too many doctors change to the private sector, NCDs are drastically increasing and financing healthcare…

IMS IMS in Malaysia is possibly the first company to have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the government for data provision. IMS Health’s general manager introduces this landmark and also shares the opportunities present for pharma companies to invest in Malaysia.     IMS is now providing data for the…

Aspen Aspen Malaysia’s country manager details the company’s success in the country with a specific business model based on acquiring and remarketing originators. Although Aspen is a renowned generic player, market dynamics have pushed the company in a different direction until today in Malaysia.     Malaysia only became one of Aspen’s…

Sandoz The general manager of Sandoz South Latam weighs up the factors that have allowed his company to be the leader in biosimilars and differentiated generics.     Could you please give us a broad overview of the generics market in Argentina over the last decade? The dynamics of the generic…

similars The vice president of Laboratorios Beta discusses the factors of why his organization is on the  way to consolidating its different business lines and becoming a pure pharmaceutical company.     2014 marks the 74th anniversary of Laboratorios Beta. To what extent is the company today still the same company…

chamber of commerce MGCC’s Executive Director discusses the opportunities and challenges for German pharma and healthcare companies to invest in Malaysia, at a time where most have decided to invest and base their headquarters in Singapore.     Could you please start by introducing what are the main tasks and objectives of the…

clinical research Clinical Research Malaysia’s CEO discusses the need for Malaysia to focus on high quality pivotal trials rather than simply on a high number of trials. He shares with us the encouraging progress of Malaysia as an attractive place for trials since clinical research was placed under the healthcare NKEA National…