CLOMIPHENE CITRATE MARKET ANALYSIS

Market Challenges And Opportunities

Clomiphene Citrate Market - Impact of Coronavirus (Covid-19) Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly hampered demand for clomiphene citrate because the women who are under treatment of clomiphene citrate for infertility or PCOS, tests positive for COVID-19 infection, they must suspend the clomiphene citrate treatment and other fertility treatment alongside, as per the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM). However, according to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine data of March 2020, there are reports of women who have tested positive for COVID-19 delivering babies free of the COVID-19 infection. The coronavirus is not a fatal infection for a pregnant women.

Clomiphene Citrate Market – Restraints

The clomiphene citrate market is expected to be negatively affected, owing to clomiphene citrate’s inefficiency in terms of being a less effective treatment to achieve pregnancy and live child births when compared to other medicines such as Letrozole. For instance, in 2014, a team of researchers at National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) found that women treated with Letrozole showed high rate of ovulation and live births than women treated with the standard drug, clomiphene citrate. Furthermore, as per the same source, among women who received Letrozole, 27.5% of them eventually had a live birth and among women who received clomiphene, only 19.1% of them experienced a live child birth. The cumulative ovulation rate was higher for Letrozole group, with ovulation occurring 61.7% of the time and the women in the clomiphene group ovulated 48.3% of the time.

• Inefficiency and Side Effects of Clomiphene Citrate