From: Linking market authorizations of medicines with disease burden in South Africa
TOP 8 diseases | % Disease burden (a) | Medicines registered with unique APIs | Total medicines registered | ||||||
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n | % (b) | Correlation (a, b) | Median registration time (months) | n | % (c) | Correlation (a–c) | Median registration time (months) | ||
Cardiovascular | 29 | 49 | 25 | 4 | 57 | 580 | 38 | − 9 | 56 |
COPD | 4 | 13 | 7 | − 3 | 70 | 99 | 7 | − 3 | 39 |
Diabetes mellitus | 7 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 50 | 49 | 4 | 3 | 48 |
Diarrheal diseases | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 57 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 62 |
HIV/AIDS | 40 | 51 | 26 | 14 | 32 | 233 | 16 | 24 | 32 |
Lower respiratory infections | 8 | 39 | 20 | − 12 | 60 | 327 | 22 | − 14 | 63 |
Other dementias | 3 | 18 | 9 | − 6 | 67 | 162 | 11 | − 7 | 56 |
Tuberculosis | 6 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 39.5 | 17 | 1 | 5 | 40 |