Legal Aspects of Drug Provision for Patients Suffering from Orphan Diseases

According to the Constitution, the Russian Federation is a social state, the right to health is guaranteed, and the right to social security is enshrined. At the same time, the cost of drugs for the treatment of orphan diseases is extremely high due to economic and regulatory reasons, therefore significant budgetary resources are required to provide drugs to patients. The cost of drug therapy, thus, causes the emergence of administrative barriers to the realization by citizens of their rights. The aim of the graduate assignment is to identify the state measures taken to meet the need for drug provision of patients suffering from orphan diseases, and to establish their effectiveness in terms of the possibility of citizens exercising their right to health. During the preparation of the work, the following general scientific methods were used: synthesis, induction, deduction, analysis, the method of system analysis, as well as methods of legal science: historical, comparative legal, method of legal statistics. This graduate assignment examines the main grounds of the right to drug provision for patients with orphan diseases, from the point of view of legal regulation, as well as ethical and legal problems arising in connection with the law in question, discloses the sources of drug provision for orphan patients, including public and private legal.