The Global Price Reporting Mechanism

The Global Price Reporting Mechanism
(GPRM) contains information on transaction
prices and quantities of ARVs, tuberculosis
drugs, malaria drugs and HIV, TB and Malaria
diagnostics purchased by HIV/AIDS, TB
and Malaria programmes in low-income
countries*, lower middle-income countries†
and upper middle-income countries‡. The
country classification is done using the World
Bank Atlas calculation and classification
method1,2. with the exception of sub-Sahara
African countries which are considered lowincome-
countries as all have access to the
lowest price of ARV’s, according to the pricing
policies of the ARV manufacturer5. The GPRM
complements reports of price quotes from
pharmaceutical companies3,4,5, 6,7,8 as well as
smaller sets of transaction prices published by
other sources 9,10,11,§.
This summary report features the transactions
data of ARVs and HIV diagnostics in 2008
and the three first quarters of 2009, and is
based on communications received by 30
October 2009. All transaction data have been
compiled and stored in a searchable database
by the AIDS Medicines & Diagnostics Service
(AMDS) of WHO HIV/AIDS