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Reportlinker Adds Emerging Clinical Trial Locations - Latin America: Market dynamics and the changing healthcare and regulatory environment

Wednesday, December 2, 2009 General News
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NEW YORK, Dec. 1 Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue:

Emerging Clinical Trial Locations -Latin America: Market dynamics and the changing healthcare and regulatory environment
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Over the last decade pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies have entered a period where they have become confronted by a variety of complex issues affecting their operational efficiency and profitability. It has now become generally acknowledged that the current business models have become both economically unsustainable and operationally unsuited to act quickly enough to produce the types of innovative treatments that will be demanded by global markets. Major issues confronting both the pharmaceutical and biotechnology market are: the requirement to reduce the escalating costs and risks associated with drug development; and reduce clinical trial timelines by improving patient recruitment and improving the efficiency of clinical trial results analysis and reporting. The biopharmaceutical industry has recognized the opportunities and advantages that exist by conducting clinical trials in what are referred to as the emerging markets. This report identifies market dynamics and key regulatory changes, and analyzes the implications and factors which need to be taken into consideration when conducting clinical trials in Latin America.

Table of Contents

Emerging clinical trial locations - Latin America

Executive summary 10

Introduction 10

Conducting clinical trials in emerging markets 11

Latin America 12

Chapter 1 Introduction 14

Summary 14

Introduction 15

Generic competition 15

Intellectual property protection 15

Managing regulatory compliance 17

Cost containment and government funding restrictions 18

Obtaining and maintaining competitive advantage 18

Recruitment and retention of a skilled workforce 19

Improvement to R&D productivity 20

High risks and costs associated with drug development 20

Escalating costs of clinical trials 20

Global increase in the number of clinical trials conducted 23

Longer R&D timelines 24

Increased attrition rates during R&D 26

Clinical trial study design and planning 27

Clinical trial study design 27

Clinical trial study protocol 28

Clinical trial sponsors 28

Identifying and recruiting patients 28

Role of CROs 29

Information technology and new technology platforms 29

Drivers of development 30

Advantages associated with EDC 30

Advantages of electronic Clinical Trial Management Systems

(CTMS) 30

Cost saving 31

Issues and challenges 31

Electronic records and signatures 31

Integration and linkage of electronic systems 32

Security and confidentiality of patient data 32

Chapter 2 Conducting clinical trials in emerging markets 36

Summary 36

Introduction 37

Market drivers 39

Rapid recruitment of patients and clinical trial investigators 39

Significant cost benefits 41

Improving transparency and efficiency of regulatory systems 42

Harmonization and standardization of regulatory requirements 43

Expansion of CROs 44

Conducive hospital infrastructure and healthcare systems 46

Enhanced clinical site effectiveness 47

Future commercial value 49

Key barriers 50

Concerns over the clinical trial transparency 50

Publication bias 51

Selective reporting 52

Duplicate publication 53

Conflict of interest 53

Availability of demographic and epidemiology data 53

Critical components concerning capacity building 53

Assimilation of individual national regulations and guidelines 56

United States 56

Japan 57

European Union 58

Language translation 59

Ethical challenges 60

Health needs of the population under study 60

Respect for potential and enrolled subjects 61

Ethical oversight 61

Lack of review by institutional review board (IRB) 61

Absence of informed consent 62

Scientific validity 63

Inadequate protection of intellectual property 64

Clinical trial logistics 64

Import licenses and applications 64

Customs regulations 65

Storage, handling and distribution 66

Selecting an appropriate CRO 67

Patient enrolment 70

Site selection 70

Site activation 71

Patient recruitment 71

Chapter 3 Latin America 74

Summary 74

Introduction 75

Geographic 75

Brazil 75

Argentina 75

Mexico 76

Political 76

Brazil 76

Argentina 76

Mexico 77

Economic 77

Brazil 77

Argentina 77

Mexico 77

Market dynamics 78

Vital statistics - Brazil 78

Population statistics 78

Epidemiology and prevalence of major disease 78

Vital statistics - Argentina 79

Population statistics 79

Epidemiology and prevalence of major diseases 79

Vital statistics - Mexico 80

Population statistics 80

Epidemiology and prevalence of major disease 80

Pharmaceutical market 82

CRO market 85

Clinical trial market 86

Market drivers 88

Significant cost savings 88

High concentration of population in urban centers 88

High ethnic diversity 89

High patient enrolment, compliance and retention rates 89

A major growing Latin American pharmaceutical market 90

Reverse seasons advantages 90

Commonality of Spanish language 90

Accessibility to medical professionals and clinical trial investigators 90

National clinical trials register - Argentina 91

Key barriers 92

Concerns over intellectual property protection 92

Inconsistent regulatory environment 93

Cultural challenges and issues 93

Healthcare 95

Healthcare system- Brazil 95

Hospital resources - Brazil 95

Healthcare system - Argentina 96

Hospital resources - Argentina 96

Healthcare system - Mexico 97

Hospital resources - Mexico 98

Regulation and guidelines 99

Regulatory authorities 99

The Pan American Network for Drug Regulatory Harmonization

(PANDRH) 99

ANVISA - Brazil 99

Brazilian Research Ethics Commission (CONEP) 100

ANMAT - Argentina 102

SSA - Mexico 103

COFEPRIS - Mexico 103

Clinical trial regulation 104

Brazil 105

Argentina 107

Mexico 109

Guidelines 111

Good Clinical Practices: Document of the Americas 111

The Buenos Aires Declaration on Ethics and Clinical Trials 114

Import licenses for drugs in clinical trials - Mexico 117

Outlook 118

Chapter 4 Appendix 120

Introduction to clinical trials 120

Clinical trial phases 120

Phase I 120

Phase II 120

Phase III 121

Phase IV 121

What is a clinical trial 121

Clinical trials of pharmaceutical agents 122

Types of clinical trial 123

Pilot studies 123

Proof of concept (PoC) trials 123

Randomized clinical studies 123

Controlled clinical trials 123

Parallel studies 124

Parallel group trials 124

Cohort studies 124

Case control studies 124

Role of the chief investigator 125

Clinical trial protocol and procedure 125

Determination of the clinical trial size 126

Role of the coordinating centre and trials unit 126

Role of the trial coordinator 126

The trial principle investigator 127

Forms and data management 127

Trial data analysis and evaluation 128

Ethical issues and conduct of clinical trial research 128

Interpretation and publication of clinical trial results 129

Principle regulatory agencies 129

The European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products (EMEA) 129

The United States Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) 129

Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) 130

Methodology statement 131

Primary Data and Information Gathering 131

Secondary data and information gathering 132

Definitions of Product-Life Cycle stages 134

Glossary of abbreviations and acronyms 135

List of Figures

Figure 1.1: Key issues facing Pharma and Biotech companies 16

Figure 1.2: Cost of bringing a drug to market ($m), 1975-2008 21

Figure 1.3: Pharmaceutical R&D expenditure ($bn), 2004-2009e 22

Figure 1.4: Biotechnology R&D expenditure ($bn), 2004-2009e 22

Figure 1.5: Cost of clinical trials in the US ($bn), 2005-2011e 23

Figure 2.6: Comparison of locations across selected countries 38

Figure 2.7: Korean Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) Approval Process 43

Figure 2.8: CRO Segment Leaders 45

Figure 2.9: Enhanced clinical site effectiveness (patients per site) in the emerging countries 48

Figure 2.10: Fewer ineffective sites in the emerging countries 48

Figure 2.11: Critical components for capacity building/conducting clinical trials 54

Figure 2.12: Assessing clinical trial location feasibility 55

Figure 2.13: CRO selection criteria 70

Figure 3.14: Population projection ('000s) - Brazil, 2000-2050 78

Figure 3.15: Population projection (thousands) - Argentina, 2000-2050 79

Figure 3.16: Population projection (thousands) - Mexico, 2000-2050 81

Figure 3.17: Forecast growth ($bn) Latin America pharmaceutical market, 2008-2013 82

Figure 3.18: Latin America pharmaceutical market 2008 83

Figure 3.19: No. of clinical trials in Latin America, 2000-2008 86

Figure 3.20: Clinical trials by phase in Latin America (number of trials), 2008 87

Figure 3.21: Registered Research Ethics Committees (REC) by Region - Brazil 2008 102

Figure 3.22: Regulation of clinical trials in Latin America 2007 104

Figure 3.23: Regulatory flowchart - Brazil 106

Figure 3.24: Regulatory flowchart - Argentina 108

Figure 3.25: Regulatory flowchart - Mexico 110

List of Tables

Table 2.1: Demographics of selected emerging markets, 2007 40

Table 2.2: Ethical principles & their application for research 62

Table 3.3: Ten leading causes of death, Argentina, 2003 80

Table 3.4: Ten leading causes of death, Mexico, 2004 (compared to rate in 2000) 81

Table 3.5: Top 10 pharma companies ($m) in Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico, 2008 84

Table 3.6: Major CROs operating in Latin America, 2009 85

Table 3.7: Ten leading causes of death in Brazil, 2003 96

Table 3.8: Snapshot of hospitals in Argentina, 2007 97

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