Five diabetes drugs among top selling drugs in India

25 July 2016

Five anti-diabetes drugs are amongst the top-10 selling medicines in India.

This is a major shift from the earlier trend when the organized retail pharma market was dominated by anti-infectives and antibiotics, according to a web posting by Brand India Pharma, a unit of India’s Pharmaceutical Export Promotion Council (Pharmexcil). Control of non-communicable disease has been one of the greatest challenges for the country.

The anti-diabetic therapy segment is estimated to be worth 85 billion rupees ($1.29 billion) and is growing at a strong rate of 12%, according to data from AIOCD Awacs. Human Mixtard (insulin from Abbott), Glycomet GP (metformin), Lantus (insulin glargine from Sanofi), Galvus Met (vildagliptin from Novartis) and Janumet (sitagliptin/metformin from Merck & Co) are the five top selling anti-diabetics drugs. The number of diabetes drugs in the top 10 selling drugs has increased from one in June 2013 to five in June 2016.

Factors affecting the surge

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