Market Report, "South Africa Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare Report Q4 2015", published

Delays in implementing South Africa's national health insurance scheme and intellectual property reform will negatively impact patients' access to medical treatments in the short term. Despite these impediments, innovative drugmakers and private healthcare providers will continue to seek opportunities in the interim, given the relatively high proportion of spending on patented drugs and private healthcare services.

Headline Expenditure Projections

Pharmaceuticals: ZAR39.79bn (USD3.67bn) in 2014 to ZAR43.84bn (USD3.47bn) in 2015; +10.2% in local currency terms and -5.3% in US dollar terms. Forecast in US dollar terms revised downwards from last quarter.
Healthcare: ZAR330.1bn (USD30.43bn) in 2014 to ZAR360.04bn (USD28.53bn) in 2015; +9.1% in local currency terms and -6.2% in US dollar terms. Forecast in US dollar terms revised downwards from last quarter.

Risk/Reward Index

South Africa has strong longer-term commercial potential because of its sizeable population and economic development. However, the impact of currency depreciation and a worsening economic outlook have hurt its short-term growth prospects. In Q415, South Africa's remained in seventh position in the matrix compared to previous quarter, with a score of 52.6 out of 100.

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The South Africa Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare Report features BMI Research's forecasts for drugs and healthcare expenditure and imports and exports, focusing on the growth outlook for the prescription, OTC, patented drugs and generics market segments.

BMI's South Africa Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare Report provides industry professionals, strategists, company executives, investors, analysts and sales/marketing heads with independent forecasts and competitive intelligence on the South Africa pharmaceutical and healthcare industry.

Key Benefits

* Benchmark BMI's pharmaceutical and healthcare market forecasts for South Africa, to test other views - a key input for successful budgeting and strategic business planning in the South African pharmaceutical and healthcare market.
* Target business opportunities and risks in the South African pharmaceutical and healthcare sector through our reviews of latest industry trends, regulatory changes and major deals, projects and investments in South Africa.
* Assess the activities, strategy and market position of your competitors using our company profiles (including SWOTs, KPIs and latest activity) and competitive landscape tables.

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