We are proud to announce PharmaSecure as a Partner of the Fight the Fakes campaign! PharmaSecure provides technology-enabled solutions that help pharmaceutical companies prevent counterfeiting of their medicines and improve health outcomes in emerging markets through customized patient engagement programs. Its solutions enable patients and consumers to verify the authenticity of their medicines through Read more…
Many might be thinking of fake medicines and drug-adulterated dietary supplements as something rather un-European, far away from the western world. On the contrary, much of their mass production takes place, indeed, in the developing parts of the globe. But that is nothing but a disguise, as they are all Read more…
Great news for the fight against fake medicines! The Convention against counterfeiting of medicines and devices – Medicrime – officially enters into force in January 2016. With 23 signatories and 5 ratifying countries, the latest Guinea on 24th September 2015, the text promoted by the Council of Europe (COE) now Read more…
La nouvelle campagne radiophonique de la Fondation Chirac débute aujourd’hui, afin de sensibiliser le public sur le danger des faux médicaments dans la rue. A travers des spots publicitaires d’environ 30 secondes, des artistes africains appellent à ne pas acheter des médicaments de la rue. Ces spots sont diffusés par Read more…
Priorité Santé (Radio France Internationale) tient ce matin une journée spéciale dédiée à la programmation sur les faux médicaments. Cette activité se tient à l’occasion du lancement de la campagne « Le médicament de la rue tue » de la Fondation Chirac (LMDLRT). Elle anticipe également l’adoption imminente de la Convention Medicrime, Read more…
Our partner International Association for Medical Assistance to Travellers (IAMAT) is bringing Fight the Fakes to Go Global Expo 2015 on the 19-20 September in Toronto. The event brings together thousands of people eager to pursue meaningful opportunities abroad—to travel, to study, to volunteering or to work—so it’s a great Read more…
This month our partner the International Pharmaceutical Students Federation (IPSF) launches its annual magazine, Public Health SPOT, chronicling the fantastic public health initiatives of pharmacy students around the world, with contributions from global partners. See article from Fight the Fakes on page 92: “Counterfeiters make it their business, make it Read more…
Highlights from this spring’s workshop in Dakar, Senegal on fake medicines, organized by Fight the Fakes partners Fondation Chirac and the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA), together with Develop Innovate Advance (DIA). Fake medicines are a global problem, but they are posing a particular challenge in Africa, where in some Read more…
The European Commission body for all things health, has recently launched a new campaign on medicines safety in the EU. The campaign takes you on a journey through the life of a pill, starting from the first time medicine is tried in humans to general use for patients across the Read more…
Fake medicines are a growing healthcare problem that have been around since the earliest days of medicine, yet have greatly increased in their prevalence and sophistication during the past few decades. Whether patients buy medicines online or offline, they should be able to trust that the medicines they are taking Read more…