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.
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…
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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…
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…
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…
Visit our YouTube Channel to see “Watch out for False Friends” with subtitles in French, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese!
President Barack Obama has signed into effect the Drug Quality and Security Act to protect the US public from fake and contaminated medicines. This law will make it easier to trace drugs through the US supply chain and contains anti-counterfeiting drug provisions. Pew Charitable Trust reports that the Act has Read more…
Stakeholders at a seminar organised by the Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) and Helpline Trust have called for the establishment of a regulatory authority to combat the country’s problem of fake medicines. Health professionals and policy influences warned that a lack of action against counterfeit medicines was tarnishing the credibility of Read more…