Today the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) launches a campaign to raise public awareness about the dangers of counterfeit products. “Counterfeit: Don’t buy into organized crime” shines a light on the illicit trade that manufactures and distributes counterfeit goods and the widespread health, social and ethical consequences Read more…
The Japanese government will step up efforts to fight fake medicines entering the country via foreign websites in 2014. The country’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has been alerted to an increasing number of websites selling fake medication claiming to be based within Japan but operating oversees. The Ministry Read more…
Stop Piracy is the Swiss platform for the prevention of counterfeiting and piracy. This year’s Swiss Day against Counterfeiting they hosted a Film Contest to raise awareness of the detrimental effects of counterfeit products to consumers. The contest winner, “Tous ensemble contre le faux” (FR), is a short film about Read more…
Not only do counterfeit drugs can endanger the life of patients, they can undermine entire public health initiatives.
Fake medicines can undermine a patient’s confidence in the medicine they are prescribed and the credibility of healthcare providers.
ICN takes counterfeit and substandard medicines very seriously, as do our partners in this campaign.
Sanofi has launched a new website, Fake Medicines, a Real Danger, to help inform their customers about drug counterfeiting and to offer some tips on how to stay safe. About to go on holiday? Traveling for business? The website offers an interactive passport to protect you from fake medicines during Read more…
Visit our YouTube Channel to see “Watch out for False Friends” with subtitles in Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese!
Fight the Fakes Partner USP has announced their continued partnership with USAID, Promoting Quality Medicines (PQM), through September 2019. The PQM programme provides technical assistance to countries without national regulation of medicines to combat the availability of counterfeit drugs. This initiative promotes the introduction of new technologies, such as Pharmacheck, Read more…
I am an endocrinologist. This is a story reflecting the human suffering caused by illegal erectile dysfunction pills (“ED pills”). The young man lies there on the hospital bed. His vital signs are normal, he is still sleeping and has a feeding tube coming out from his nose. I Read more…