In the last few months, we have witnessed a steady increase in reports of fake Covid-19 medicines and vaccines reports all around the globe. It is an alarming situation, especially in those countries with fewer resources where Covid-19 is affecting the population hardest. The GS1 Executive Dialogues is a unique Read more…
Nurses: A Voice to Lead A vision for future healthcare Each year International Nurses’ Day encourages us to reflect on the crucial role nurses play in the promotion and protection of public health. However, this year it is more important than ever to give them the support and recognition they deserve. Read more…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI6hHJG5pGk Fighters, it’s time to act against the growing threat of falsified products produced and sold as treatments and vaccines for COVID-19! Reports of falsified and substandard products sold as COVID-19 treatments and vaccines continue to increase at a worrying pace across the globe, hindering efforts to contain the pandemic, Read more…
Malaria is a disease that can be prevented and treated…when using the right medicines!
Photo by AMISOM via Iwaria World Malaria Day reminds us, as if we had ever forgotten, that fatal diseases that have afflicted humanity long before COVID-19 are still responsible for hundreds of thousands of avoidable deaths each year. It is a time to reflect that, in a world where heart-breaking Read more…
The day Victoria Amponsah was diagnosed with malaria she also learned that she was two months pregnant. She left the hospital with a prescription for an anti-malarial drug and, like patients anywhere else in the world, went to a local pharmacy believing that the medicine she purchased would treat her Read more…
According to the Medicine Quality Research Group, Centre of Tropical Medicine & Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine and the University of Oxford’s Medical Product Quality Report – COVID-19 vaccine issues from March 2021, between 12th March 2020 and 5 th March 2021 76 reports of diverted or SF COVID-19 vaccines from Read more…
Every year our founding member IFPW Foundation organises its central fundraising event, thanks to which also the mission of Fight the Fakes is being supported! This year the benefit will take place online which means that you too can participate to learn more about the initiatives that IFPW Foundation is Read more…
The GS1 Healthcare Online Summit is a 3-day event (20-22 April 2021) organised by GS1, who is one of the founding members of the recently launched Fight the Fakes Alliance. The event offers the opportunity to understand how global standards are being used across all parts of the healthcare supply Read more…
Today, on 7 April, the global health community is celebrating World Health Day under the theme of Health Equity, proposed by the World Health Organisation (WHO). The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified social, economic, and health inequities. Living a healthy live, and getting easier access to health services more than others, depends on where you are Read more…