Investigation of biopharmaceutical products circulating on Ho Chi Minh city market

Abstract

Biopharmac eutic als are pharmac eutic al proteins or nuc leic ac ids used as therapies, preventions or detec tions. Biopharmac eutic al produc ts c ontain c ytokines, enzymes, hormones, blood c lotting fac tors, monoc lonal antibodies, c ell therapies and vac c ines. They are manufac tured from biologic al sourc es via biotec hnologic al tec hniques. HCMC with over 7 million c itizens is the biggest pharmac eutic al/biopharmac e utic al market in Vietnam. This market researc h was proc eeded in order to get the overview of HCMC biopharmac eutic al market as well as its development in 2006- 2010 and give orientations for further researc hes. The data obtained by quantitative investigate methods were analyzed by SPSS and Exc el. The HCMC biopharmac eutic al market mainly c onsisted of vac c ines and diagnostic biopharmac eutic als. Hormones and c ytokines were the rest small sec tions. The biopharmac eutic al market in HCMC grew

rapidly with high annual rate of 11%. Almost the biopharmac eutic al produc ts were imported from large foreign pharmac eutic al and biopharmac eutic al c ompanies of developed c ountries suc h as United States, England, Franc e, Germany, Switzerland and South Korea. This means HCMC biopharmac eutic al market was mainly depended on foreign pharmac eutic al/biopharmac eutic al companies.