PRESS RELEASES & STATEMENTS
A Message from Dr David Reddy, CEO Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV)
Not only do counterfeit drugs can endanger the life of patients, they can undermine entire public health initiatives.
PRESS RELEASES & STATEMENTS
A Message from John C. Lechleiter, Ph.D., IFPMA President
Fake medicines can undermine a patient’s confidence in the medicine they are prescribed and the credibility of healthcare providers.
INFORMATIONAL MATERIALS
A Message from Mr. David Benton, CEO International Council of Nurses (ICN)
ICN takes counterfeit and substandard medicines very seriously, as do our partners in this campaign.
INFORMATIONAL MATERIALS
Fake Medicines, a Real Danger for Health
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…
INFORMATIONAL MATERIALS
Watch Out for False Friends (short version)
Visit our YouTube Channel to see “Watch out for False Friends” with subtitles in Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese!
UPDATES
USAID Extends Promoting the Quality of Medicines Programme
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…
STORIES
Fake ED Pills in Singapore Kill
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…
UPDATES
Finnish Medicines Act: Securing the Drug Supply Chain
The government of Finland is stepping up action to prevent counterfeit medicines from entering the country’s drug supply chain. When importing into Finland from outside the European Economic Area (EEA), the amended Finnish Medicines Act requires ingredients intended to be used in medicines to hold a written authority statement stipulating Read more…
UPDATES
New Technology for Testing Counterfeit Drugs Picked as “World Changing Idea”
PharmaCheck, a cutting-edge, inexpensive, portable tool capable of detecting poor quality medicines, has been selected by Scientific American as one of the science magazine’s “World Changing Ideas of 2013 — Ten ways science may jazz up our gadgets, help to solve our most intractable problems and save lives.” In collaboration Read more…
INFORMATIONAL MATERIALS
Watch Out for False Friends
Visit our YouTube Channel to see “Watch out for False Friends” with subtitles in French, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese!