Last week concluded the 2014 Global Forum on Access to Safe Medicines attended by Fight the Fakes partners International Council of Nurses (ICN), Institute of Research Against Counterfeit Medicines (IRACM), International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA) and the Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV). The Global Forum allowed for Read more…
Fake drugs put your health at risk and may have a significant health impact. The three most commonly counterfeited medicines to treat malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS. For subtitles in French, please click here.
The Center for Pharmaceutical Advancement and Training (CePAT) in Ghana has just received a Minilab to aid in detection fake medicines. Minilab checks medicines for the correct active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) and equips regulatory authorities with a portable and low-cost means of protecting patients from counterfeit drugs. Using Minilab, CePAT Read more…
The Council of Europe’s European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines (EDQM) has launched a database to collate incidents of drug counterfeiting across Europe. Titled, Know-X, the database aims to improve cross-border collaboration in the fight against fake medicines and shall also record the types of pharmaceutical products that are Read more…
My name is Vittoria Grasso and I am a Venezuelan student studying economics at Bocconi University in Milan. This year I got the opportunity to be the Model UN (MUN) Director for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime at the National High School Model United Nations (NHSMUN). I Read more…
Counterfeiters make packaging as realistic as possible. The same attention is not paid to what goes into the medicines.
Fake medicines have not undergone any quality control or been approved by qualified government officials.
