The purpose of this report was to determine the consumption of azithromycin in a pharmaceutical establishment in Trujillo from January to December 2018. The data of azithromycin-dispensed tablets and their commercial equivalents, obtained from the computerized system of an establishment, were considered. pharmaceutical during the period in question. Consumption was determined by means of the defined daily dose (DDD), this is a technical unit for measuring drug consumption, which corresponds to the maintenance dose in the main indication for a route of administration for adults. As results, azithromycin was the one with the highest annual consumption of 4.351 DDD /1000 inhabitants/day, followed by Azitor with 2.179 DDD/1000 inhabitants/day, Azicat with 0.663 DDD/1000 inhabitants/day, Astrocina 0.255 DDD/1000 inhabitants/day and zithromax with 0.208 DDD/1000 inhabitants/day. The consumptio...