Fight the Fakes congratulates Ashifi Gogo, Founder of Partner Sproxil, in being awarded Schwab Foundation’s Social Entrepreneur of the Year award. Fake medicines present a real threat to patients and to public health as a whole. Empowering patients with the ability to distinguish life-saving medicines from live-threating counterfeits is one Read more…
(French/English) Alors qu’on les achète pour se soigner, les médicaments de la rue tuent. Nombreux sont ceux qui achètent leurs médicaments au bord de la route car ils sont meilleur marché. Dans de nombreux cas, c’est un parent ou une connaissance qui vous conseille de tenter le coup. Il est Read more…
On September 18, 2014 in Washington, DC thought leaders, policy makers, patient advocates, law enforcement, medicine makers, suppliers and pharmacists will gather to discuss the state of patient safety in a world with counterfeit drugs. Learn what leaders are doing about the problems of counterfeit drugs. Speakers from the World Read more…
Fight the Fakes partner United States Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) has awarded a Global Fellowship to a chemistry graduate student from the University of Notre Dame, in Indiana, for his work related to fake medicine detection. The fellow, Nicholas Myers, supports Professor Marya Lieberman in the development of the Paper Analytical Read more…
The US Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) has joined with the Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies (ASOP) to combat the threat posed by the illegal online sale of medicines. Fake medicines sold online are a huge threat – more than 50% of medicines sold worldwide from illegal online sources are fake. This Read more…
August 1st to 10th this year saw our Partner, the International Pharmaceutical Students’ Federation’s, annual congress in Porto, Portugal. The congress is the biggest and the most important annual event for pharmacy students, and this year hosted more than 750 participants from all over the world. The busy agenda included Read more…
Our Partners ASOP, ASOP EU and CSIP have hosted a seminar on ‘Protecting Patients from Falsified Medicines Online’ in Brussels. Officials from the European Commission, the United States government, as well as key stakeholders from the US and EU healthcare and Internet commerce communities, patient groups, and other non-government organisations Read more…
Update: Dr. Thomas Egwang has launched a campaign, EquipmentAgainstFakes, to help raise funds for his lab’s purchasing of equipment for detecting fake medicines. Click here to see what you can do to help! My name is Dr. Thomas Egwang, and I am the Senior Scientist at Med Biotech Laboratories in Uganda. Read more…
My name is Marie Lamy and I am conducting a doctoral study at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. I am researching the institutional mechanisms to regulate and prevent the availability of fake medicines in the Greater Mekong Region of Southeast Asia, comprised of Myanmar, Thailand, Lao, Cambodia, Read more…
Bloomberg news reported yesterday that fake antibiotics are among the world’s most common fake medicines, and that this is feeding into the prevalence of global antimicrobial drug resistance. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), conducting a surveillance program on fake antibiotics in 80 countries around the world, drug resistance Read more…