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LOCOST
(Low Cost Standard Therapeutics) makes essential medicines for those
working with urban and rural poor in India.
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LOCOST
is a response to the difficulty faced by those working in remote
areas to access good quality medicines at affordable prices.
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LOCOST
is an innovative experiment to show that good quality medicines
can be made and marketed at viable, low prices.
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correct use of medicines and education of end-users and prescribes
are major concerns of LOCOST.
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LOCOST
is a public, non-profit charitable trust, registered in
Baroda, India.
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LOCOST, founded in 1983, has been serving the poor by making
only rational, essential, quality drugs at the lowest
possible prices.
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LOCOST
makes more than 60 essential medicines in 80 formulations (liquids,
capsules, tablets).
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LOCOST by virtue of having its own factory has tried to demystify production in a small way. | |||
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LOCOST
realizes that mere production of essential medicines is not
enough. Irrational prescription starts with the prescriber. Therefore
it is necessary to educate the prescriber as well as the user.
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LOCOST's
education cell focuses on issues related to education and training
for rational use of medicines.
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LOCOST
brings out a Gujarati monthly, Apnu Swasthya, for the general public.
It also brings out other publications for the general public, the
latest being the Gujarati version of the famous classic, Where
there is No Doctor; and A Lay Person's
Guide to Medicine, a guide on the use and political economy
of medicines.
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LOCOST
is also active in pharmaceutical policy advocacy at regional
and national levels. Our partnership, as respondents, in an
ongoing case in the Supreme Court has resulted in the elimination
of several categories of harmful and irrational
drugs.
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