Monitoring of Access To Health in Venezuela

RESULTS

INDICATOR BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

The shortage indexes reported in our June 2019 survey within the framework of the “Monitoring the Right to Health in Venezuela” project, which range from 51 percent and 82 percent for the basic baskets of drugs prescribed to treat the six causes of morbidity selected, are shown below. There has been a downward trend in shortages during the first semester of 2019.

In Convite, A.C., we are of the opinion that the reduction in the shortage of some pharmaceutical items seems to have been caused by the alleged proliferation of uncontrolled private import markets: medicines from other countries are arriving in disproportionate amounts and, in some cases, not through regular channels. Most regrettably, said medicines used to be mass produced in Venezuela,as Tito López, president of the Chamber of the Pharmaceutical Industry (CIFAR, by its Spanish acronym), has denounced. But nowthe production of medicines in the country barely reaches 30 percent, and the sector’s fall has remained unchanged at 49.1 percent in recent months.

Table No. 1: Nationwide Aggregate by City and Morbidity. June 2019.

Chart No. 1: Behavior of the Aggregate Medicine Shortage Nationwide – June 2019

Chart No. 2: Behavior and Evolution of the Medicine Shortage Index by Morbidity. January 2019 – June 2019

GRAPHIC DEPICTION OF THE MEDICINE SHORTAGE INDEX BY MORBIDITY

DIABETES

Chart No. 3: Behavior of the Medicine Shortage Index by Morbidity. Diabetes. June 20019

HYPERTENSION:

Chart No. 4: Behavior of the Medicine Shortage Index by Morbidity: Hypertension. June 2019.

ACUTE INFECTIONS OF THE RESPIRATORY TRACT:

Chart No. 5: Behavior of the Medicine Shortage Index by Morbidity: ARIs. June 2019.

DIARRHEAL DISEASES:

Chart No. 6: Behavior of the Medicine Shortage Index by Morbidity: Diarrhea. June 2019.

DEPRESSION AND PERSONALITY DISORDERS:

Chart No. 7: Behavior of the Medicine Shortage Index by Morbidity: Depression. June 2019.

SEIZURES:

Chart No. 8: Behavior of the Medicine Shortage Index by Morbidity: Seizures. June 2019.

ON CONTRACEPTIVES

Sexual and Reproductive Health at Risk

Chart No. 9: Shortage Index Aggregate Nationwide, by City. The Case of Contraceptives. June 2019.