Adebayo Alonge – an avid advocate of raising awareness about the issue of falsified medicines and one of the key speakers of our event ‘Digital Natives Fight Fake Medicines’ which took place on Monday, 20th May, along the side lines of the World Health Assembly, is taking part in the Read more…
Fight the Fakes and the Fight the Fakes chapter of the University College London (UCL) are hosting the event ‘Digital Natives Fight Fake Medicines – How tech start-ups & youth are driving the development of innovative technologies in the fight against falsified medicines’ at the side-lines of the 72nd Read more…
To mark this year’s World Malaria Day, George Jagoe, the Executive Vice President for Access and Product Management of our partner Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV), published an opinion piece in the New Times Rwanda to address the growing burden of falsified antimalarials and its serious consequences for the global Read more…
April 25 marks World Malaria Day and Fight the Fakes is supporting the call to reignite the global movement towards malaria elimination! From 2000 until 2015 the global health community annually celebrated the successful progress in the reduction of malaria cases in almost every country worldwide. Yet since 2016 this Read more…
Falsified medicines pose a serious health threat for individuals around the world, no matter the country, age or gender. With them come vast financial and socioeconomic costs that make fake medicines an undeniable roadblock in achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2030. But there are opportunities that patients, governments, NGOs Read more…
To mark the occasion of World Health Day, Howard Catton, CEO from our partner the International Council of Nurses (ICN) published an op-ed in Nigeria Health Watch to highlight the crucial role health care professionals, such as nurses, and digital health solutions play in the fight against falsified medicines. Particularly Read more…
Every year on the 7th of April the global health community is celebrating ‘World Health Day’. The awareness day was first created by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 1950 and is seen as an opportunity by the organization to draw attention to a subject of major importance in global health Read more…
So, OK, having back pain is awful… but read on to find out what happened to Maggie DiVita Crowley. Maggie was 34, a wife, daughter, sister, and aunt. She lived in Wellington, Florida, USA. Maggie stopped breathing and died after she took a pill to ease her back pain. Her Read more…
Fight the Fakes is thrilled to be named as one of the organisations addressing falsified medicines in a new review article in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene which was published on March 11. In the article, titled ‘Falsified and Substandard Drugs: Stopping the Pandemic’, doctors are describing Read more…
‘The Traffickers’ is a 2016 British-American 8-part investigative television series on Netflix about the illegal trafficking of goods – and one of their episodes is focusing on the global illegal trade of falsified medicine! The British journalist and TV host Nelufar Hedayat follows the trail of a global criminal network Read more…