New Zealand to fund two new multiple sclerosis treatments

4 December 2015

New Zealand’s Pharmaceutical Management Agency PHARMAC has approval proposals to fund two new treatments for multiple sclerosis (MS) – dimethyl fumarate and teriflunomide – and to make amendments to the Special Authority criteria relating to MRI requirements for all MS treatments. This decision was the subject of a consultation letter last in October.

In summary, the effect of the decision is that from February 1, 2016, two new treatments:

dimethyl fumarate (Tecfidera), supplied by the local subsidiary of US biotech major Biogen (Nasdaq: BIIB); and
teriflunomide (Aubagio), supplied by French pharma major Sanofi’s (Euronext: SAN) unit in New Zealand

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