Teva’s Year of Affordable Healthcare

Teva’s Year of Affordable Healthcare campaign is a nationwide call for increased access to affordable healthcare for American citizens. The program coincides with the 25th anniversary of the landmark Hatch-Waxman Act, which created the modern generic pharmaceutical industry and has saved billions of healthcare dollars.

The Year of Affordable Healthcare kicked off with the release of a national poll that finds many Americans, due to the economic crisis, have skipped their doses of medication to save money.

Teva also kicked off the campaign with the release of the first in a series of videos designed to illustrate the important savings generic drugs have produced for everyday Americans since Hatch-Waxman passed.

The Year of Affordable Healthcare campaign will also include:

• Several regional forums to explore voter priorities for health care reform in 2009, which will be enshrined in a report to Congress later in the year;
• Interactive, new media initiatives meant to engage Americans at the grassroots-level to support the priorities of the Year of Affordable Healthcare campaign;
• Additional polls to track American sentiments on healthcare amid the economic crisis throughout the year;
• Stakeholder outreach to local political and healthcare leaders in major cities to join the Year of Affordable Healthcare!

About Teva

Teva occupies a unique position within the healthcare world because we manufacture the broad spectrum of pharmaceutical products – from more affordable generics and innovative brand-name drugs to the cutting edge of the life sciences where biological medicines are manufactured from living organisms.

Because of this expansive breadth of experience, Teva draws from a deep reservoir of understanding to inform public policy discussions and development. We are committed to advancing both innovation and patient access to needed therapies.

With more than a century of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, Teva has grown to become one of the top 25 companies in the world based on sales and volume of prescriptions filled. Over half of our business is centered on the United States, with operations that include more than 7,000 employees working in more than a dozen facilities located in nine states.

Teva is the largest manufacturer of generic pharmaceuticals in the U.S. and worldwide. We provide the broadest generic product line in the U.S., with more than 400 drugs covering categories like antibiotics, antidepressants, acid reducers, anti-inflammatory medicines, anti-diabetics, oral contraceptives and statins.

Teva’s top priorities are the safety and effectiveness of our medicines and the health of American patients. We produce life-saving drugs at a tremendous value to consumers – making better health more accessible.

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