Vietnam legalises Viagra
HANOI - Vietnam has legalised the sale of Viagra years after smuggled and copied versions of the anti-impotency drug first hit the black market, a health ministry official said on Thursday.
The blue pill made by US drugs giant Pfizer will now be prescribed in public hospitals, said an official in the ministry's pharmaceutical products management department, who asked not to be named.
Viagra has been sold illegally in the communist nation for around two dollars a tablet, and generic Indian, German and locally-made versions have been sold on prescription for the past two years.
According to official figures, around two million of Vietnam's more than 40 million men suffer from erectile dysfunction.
Agence France Presse - May 25, 2006.
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