AstraZeneca Partners with Mankind to Distribute Asthma Drugs in India
AstraZeneca Pharma India, Mankind partner to accelerate access to asthma medicine in India
India is contributing 13% to the global asthma burden and a disproportionate 43% of the global asthma deaths. It highlights a clear scope of improving the way asthma is managed in the country. AstraZenecaPharma India Limited and Mankind Pharma Limited entered into an agreement for exclusive distribution of AstraZeneca’s budesonide and formoterol fumarate dihydrate (inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) and long-acting beta-agonist (LABA) combination) brand Symbicort in India.
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AstraZeneca will retain the intellectual property rights to budesonide and formoterol fumarate dihydrate and will continue to be the Marketing Authorisation Holder (MAH) and import license.
India’s Contribution
India is contributing 13% to the global asthma burden and a disproportionate 43% of the global asthma deaths.
It highlights a clear scope of improving the way asthma is managed in the country. ""The partnership with Mankind Pharma presents an opportunity to accelerate access and maximize the potential of our asthma drug as well as the turbuhaler which is a simple device, efficient in consistently delivering a higher proportion of respirable particles than the other devices. As much as we are excited to bring innovative medicine to India fast, we are equally invested on improving access strategically in the country,"" said Dr. Sanjeev Panchal, Country President and Managing Director, AstraZeneca India.
Mankind on Agreement
Commenting on the agreement with AstraZeneca India, Atish Majumdar, Sr. President – Sales & Marketing, Mankind Pharma Limited said We are excited to partner with AstraZeneca to make their innovative therapy flagship brand Symbicort, a global standard in treating Asthma.
Symbicort's dual mechanism of action and ease of use in a single inhaler can greatly help patients manage these conditions and improve their quality of life.
Through our field forces’ extensive outreach, we hope to strengthen access across urban and rural markets. With our shared goal to enable better patient outcomes, I see this collaboration as strategic in more ways than one.
We believe such credible partnerships that widen availability of globally established medicines in India exemplify our ethos of putting patients first while ensuring value.
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