Viagra is one of the most effective medication for the treatment of sexual problems such as erectile dysfunction, ED, in men especially in advancing ages beyond 50 years. Sildenafil citrate is the active ingredients of the Viagra medication. It is responsible for the activation of erection and its maintenance during sexual intercourse in people with low sexual desire through relaxation of tissues and muscles of the reproductive organs to accommodate more blood flow. Viagra medication is available in the market as a brand Viagra and Generic Viagra.
Generic Viagra is Coming to America
Despite being the founders of the first pharmaceutical Viagra in the world, the American ED medication market has relied on the brand Viagra. A patent protecting the introduction of generic Viagra in America approved by the American Food and Drug Authority has shielded Pfizer Inc. from competition for the past 18 years since its commissioning in 1998. The company communicated to have entered into an agreement with Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. a division of the Israeli-based Teva Industries Ltd, to reduce the length of the patent from 2020 to December 2017. The move will allow Teva to introduce an alternative formulation of the Viagra medication.
Canada and the European Viagra market have enjoyed generic forms of the Viagra since 2012. While America has been supplying the world market in about 120 countries with most of them enjoying generics of Viagra, Revatio (Sildenafil) has been the only alternative in the US. Revatio was allowed to sell in the US from 2012 because of its additional uses such as treatment of pulmonary problems.
Cheaper option from generic Viagra
The final go-ahead to the introduction of the generic Viagra by the end of this year in the US is good news to the ED suffering community. Patients in the United States have majorly been relying on the Canadian market to find alternatives of the brand Viagra from other PDE5 inhibitors such as Levitra, Cialis, and Staxyn. Generics Viagra will act as a perfect trigger to lowering prices of its brand medication in the US through completion and fall of Pfizer monopolistic power.
Other names such as Bayer Pharmaceuticals’ Levitra and the French Cialis medication have their patents coming to an end before 2018 to allow more generic ED medication in the US.
Place an Order Online
With the protection of the brand Viagra still in effect, all the previous options of acquiring generic Viagra are still available. Patients and other buyers can access the generic Viagra over the counter from the many local pharmacies available in Canada or the various online drugstores. Buying online is cheap and a convenient way of accessing the drug as it can be done anywhere on the globe at any time of the day with as quick as an overnight delivery depending on the location of the buyer.
The brand Viagra is still the best option to treat erectile dysfunction according to health experts. However, other ED medications have proven to be effective as well. Patients should consult their physicians for the best choice among the dozens of coming options in the US as the generic Viagra contain varying chemical contents.