On Tuesday 25 April we raise awareness of World Malaria Day. Malaria as a disease that disproportionately impacts children, women and the developing world more broadly, and is largely preventable given the right medication and treatment. Unfortunately, according to the WHO 1/3 of antimalarial medicines in Africa, where most of Read more…
Blog by Luc Besançon, Chief Executive Officer at Fight the Fakes partner the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP). This blog was originally posted by Fight the Fakes partner the US Pharmacopeial Convention. Fake medicines kill an estimated one million people annually. We know, for example, that almost a third of Africa’s antimalarials supply Read more…
This article was originally published in: Frontier Myanmar The fight against fake drugs MARCH 31, 2017 The fake drugs widely available in Myanmar are a threat to public health, an obstacle to combating the spread of treatment-resistant malaria and part of a global trade worth an estimated $75 billion. By Read more…
In September 2016, UN Member States adopted Political Declaration of the High-Level Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance calling for the establishment of a group to provide practical guidance towards global action on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR). AMR is what happens when a microorganism, instead of being cured by medication, becomes resistant to Read more…
We are proud to announce Commonwealth Pharmacist Association as a Partner of the Fight the Fakes campaign! The Commonwealth Pharmacist Association (CPA) advances health, promotes wellbeing and improves education for the benefit of the people of the Commonwealth. It supports the development of safe and effective systems of medicines management, healthier lifestyles, and Read more…
On Saturday 11th March our partners at the UCL School of Pharmacy were among those teaching the next generation of pharmacists how to stop fake medicines in their tracks. The students from the South of England had assembled at the UCL School of Pharmacy to discuss cardiology, and recorded their Read more…
From anti-counterfeiting legislation to serialisation and online pharmacies, hardly a stone was left unturned in a two-day discussion at the 3rd Anti-Counterfeiting Pharma Conference in Kensington, London. On 7-8 March 2017 delegates from leading organisations in health and science debated strategies and measures to combat counterfeiting at the 3rtd Anti-Counterfeiting Read more…
Our partner the European Healthcare Distribution Association (GIRP) is hosting an event on Managing Risk in the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain on 8-9 March 2017 in Brussels. The conference will discuss how the pharmaceutical industry, healthcare distributors and other partners in the supply chain can manage risk when storing and transporting medicines Read more…
On 15 February 2016, the Anti-counterfeit Network Africa was launched in Uganda to help in the fight against production & supply of fake medicines. Fake medicines are very difficult to detect and can appear identical to the genuine product. However, they fail to treat the patient correctly and in some cases can Read more…
With 26 signatories and 5 ratifying countries, Burkina Faso became the latest country to sign the Medicrime convention on the 17 February 2017. Adopted in 2010 by the Council of Europe and entering into force in 2016, the Medicrime convention is the first international legal treaty to protect patients from Read more…