Just before summer vacations and the departure of numerous French holiday makers abroad, IRACM together with the French National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI), the National Union of the Students in Pharmacy of France (ANEPF), the French National Pharmacists Council (ONP) and the French anti-piracy committee (CNAC) launched on June Read more…
To download the full study from Health Policy Planning, click here. Abstract of “Public health interventions to protect against falsified medicines: A systematic review of international, national, and local policies” Falsified medicines are deliberately fraudulent drugs that pose a direct risk to patient health and undermine healthcare systems, causing global Read more…
On 17 June 2016, Fight the Fakes participated in a stakeholder roundtable with expert organizations involved in protecting people from illicit medicines online in the EU. The meeting, convened by our partner Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacy in the EU (ASOP EU) and hosted at Google offices in Brussels, welcomed Read more…
This week a Ministerial Conference takes place in Douala, Cameroon, on central African cooperation in the fight against fake medicines. This takes place under the organizations of the Communauté Économique et Monétaire des Etats de l’Afrique Centrale (CEMAC) and Organisation de Coordination et de Coopération pour la lutte contre les Grandes Endémies Read more…
On June 20, 2016, IRACM together with the French anti-piracy committee (CNAC) organized a conference-debate on drug counterfeiting at the Luxembourg palace. The event brought together a hundred people coming from both the private and the public sector as well as from NGOs. Experts from international organizations (WCO, Interpol, Council Read more…
The Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies (ASOP Global), Center for Safe Internet Pharmacies (CSIP) and National Consumers League (NCL) are joining forces to educate seniors and their caregivers about the health and financial risks associated with buying prescription medicines from illegal or rogue online pharmacies, and to provide them with Read more…
Fight the Fakes partners the International Pharmaceutical Students’ Federation (IPSF) and the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA) hosted on 27 May an event at the 69th annual World Health Assembly (WHA69). The event was made up of a panel discussion with speakers from IPSF, the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), Médecins Read more…
This article was originally published in Securing Industry. Medicines for Europe joints counterfeit medicines campaign 30-May-2016 Medicines for Europe announced at a satellite meeting of the World Health Assembly that it has joined the Fight the Fakes campaign. Medicines for Europe (formerly the EGA) – which represents generic and biosimilar Read more…
This statement was made at the World Health Assembly by the International Pharmaceutical Students’ Federation (IPSF) on behalf of all Fight the Fakes partners. Meeting: Sixty-ninth World Health Assembly (A69/1) Agenda Item: 16.3 Substandard/spurious/falsely-labelled/falsified/counterfeit medical products Speaker: Ana Duarte, IPSF Statement: Honorable Chair, Distinguished Delegates, Today, IPSF speaks on behalf Read more…
This article was originally published in IP Watch. Brief: Europe Medicines Group Joins Initiative To Fight Fake Medicines 27/05/2016 BY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY WATCH Medicines for Europe, representing the generic, biosimilar, and medicines in Europe, announced today during a side event at the World Health Assembly, that it joined the Global Campaign Read more…