Viagra Will Now Be Available Low Cost in Brazil

Author: Racquel Nicdao


In a few days, Pfizer’s patent on Sildenafil citrate will expire in Brazil. This only means that a generic version of the famous blue pill can now be produce by other pharmaceutical companies and as a consequence its price will surely drop.

Viagra or widely known as the blue pill will now be available at a lower price in Brazil, where it is currently sold even without any medical prescription.

The pharmaceutical company Pfizer’s patent on Sildenafil citrate, otherwise known as Viagra, will expire in a few days and, as a consequence, other companies can now produce and put into market an equivalent version of the drug.

The Brazilian pharmaceutical companies which will produce the generic drug of Pfizer’s famous blue pill are expected to sell it at a much lower price.

A news which can surely bring joy to about 25 million Brazilians who suffer from some erectile dysfunctions and who are presently spending about 80 million euro a year to ensure smooth sexual intercourse with their partners, the Italian newspaper Il Giornale reported.

This has actually brought Pfizer to react without delay in response to the forthcoming tough market competition. The company has consequently decrease Viagra’s price, reducing it to about 50% of its original cost.

South America is considered as one of the flourishing markets in terms of Viagra sales.

In other countries of the European Union, like Italy, United Kingdom, Austria, Germany, France and Sweden, Pfizer’s patent on Sildenafil citrate will expire in 2013.

According to figures reported by Wikipedia, in year 2000, Viagra sales amounted for 92% of the global market for prescribed erectile dysfunction pills. By 2007, however, this sales dropped to about 50% due to a wide range of factors.

Viagra’s primary competitors in the market include Levitra and Cialis, together with a vast assortment of imitations which can be easily obtained via Internet.

The eventual drop in the cost of this famous blue pill will surely help and facilitate the Brazilian health authorities for an effective battle against counterfeited drugs which are dangerous to health.

Although studies suggest that the blue pill has a little effect when taken by those not suffering from any erectile problems, this is being used by a lot of young adults who hope and wish to obtain an excellent sexual performance.

Unfortunately, this happens not only in Brazil.

Online resources have made it possible for all men in all parts of the world to have easy access on the drug even without undergoing a serious medical consultation.

As a result, Viagra has now become a sort of Aspirin which can be bought everywhere and which can be taken as the need arises.

Sildenafil was developed by a group of pharmaceutical chemists working for the Pfizer. It was initially meant to cure coronary diseases, and first clinical trials were conducted in England.

The effectiveness of the drug on coronary diseases was scant and deluding, but its unexpected collateral effects were greatly appreciated by patients since the compound could induce notable penile erection.

Viagra’s arrival in 1998 has revolutionized the whole world and it soon became a great success.

Finally, erectile dysfunctions can be effectively treated by simply taking a blue pill.

Philippines: Benigno Aquino III Could Give Way to a Tide of Necessary Renewal

Author: Racquel Nicdao
Published: June 9,2010

Endowed with the support of the overwhelming number of voters who has clearly opted for him, the newly proclaimed President has now the chance and the authority to give way to a tide of renewal bent to boost the economy and to improve the living standards of the population.

Benigno Simeon Aquino III, otherwise known as ‘Noynoy’ is the newly proclaimed 15th President of the Republic of the Philippines.

Son of the late President Corazon Aquino and the late political activist Benigno Aquino Jr., two important figures in Philippine history, he was elected by the majority of the Filipino people on May 10, 2010.

About 15,208,678 of the 51 million registered voters have chosen his political stand for a strong, transparent and well defined governance and anti-corruption platform.

Supported and encouraged by the overwhelming number of voters who has clearly opted for Noynoy Aquino, he and his team are confident that they could eventually pursue what they have promised during election campaign.

Although it is still unclear Aquino’s views concerning vital issues such as the economy, national security and foreign affairs, his advisers have pointed out their firm stand to ward off corruption in every level of the society.

A favourable and advantageous outset is just before the newly proclaimed President Benigno Aquino III. Although the country grew just about 0.5% last year, figures released by the Philippine National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) showed that GDP boomed with a growth of 7.3% in the first quarter of year 2010.

The precedent government headed by Gloria Macapagal Arroyo accredited the increase in view of the positive results achieved in various sub-sectors of the economy such as manufacturing, trade and private services. Total approved foreign investments and continued increase of income of OFWs (overseas Filipino workers) are also helping to sustain this expansion.

In the last five years the government has continued and maintained fiscal discipline and has recently augmented spending to promote rural development and infrastructure.

Progress has also been achieved in access to safe drinking water and sanitary toilet facilities, in fighting diseases such as malaria and AIDS, nutrition and gender equality.

But despite all these achievements, other important challenges persist and are in need of immediate attention.

In year 2006, about 32.9% of the population lived below the poverty line. The increasing disparity of wealth between certain areas of the society is the primary ground for the rapid rise of discontent, crimes and corruption and instability in the Southern Philippines, factors which can discourage foreign investments, growth in employment and economic development.

The newly proclaimed President Aquino evokes an important and dramatic event in the history of the Philippines. The assassination of Benigno Aquino Jr., the father of Noynoy, gave way to the People’s Power Revolution or the EDSA Revolution which occurred in year 1986.

Headed by the widow Corazon Aquino and other important personalities like Gen. Fidel Ramos and Cardinal Jaime Sin, this sort of non violent mass street demonstrations, supported by about 3 million people, had consequently put an end to the 20 year authoritarian regime of the then President Ferdinand Marcos.

It is just probable, then, that the mass of people who recently voted for the son of the late President Corazon Aquino and the martyred political activist Benigno Aquino Jr. was exactly the same who crowded and filled several places along Epifanio de los Santos Avenue or EDSA.

The same mass of people who wanted not only an end to years of authoritarian regime, but most specially an end to years of widespread graft and corruption, bribery, government inaction, increasing inequalities between the rich and the poor, between the rural and the urban areas.

In some ways, with the election of Benigno Simeon Aquino III, the People’s Power is back, after 24 long years. A lot of things has changed since then, but now it is back again, hoisting more or less the same concerns.

Endowed with a strong and legitimized mandate he has recently received from the Filipino people, Benigno Aquino III has now the chance and the authority to give voice to those concerns. He has now the chance and the authority to courageously bring out innovative and modern line of politics which could give way to a necessary tide of renewal to all levels of the Philippine society.

The sort of renewal which could really make the difference and which could permit the Philippines to catch up with the rest of its neighboring countries.


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