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PRESS RELEASE: Step up action to tackle substandard and falsified medical products. Urgent call for “fake busters”

Step up action to tackle substandard and falsified medical products. Urgent call for “fake busters” Press Release Geneva, 25 November 2021 Fight the Fakes Alliance is holding its 4th annual public campaign under the slogan “Health is not a hoax – Fight the Fakes” from December 6 to 12. We are urging the general public, doctors, nurses, researchers, wholesalers, pharmaceutical executives, medical and pharmacy students, as well as the international community to speak out against Read more…

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French communications toolkit – Fight the Fakes Week 2021

Aidez-nous à faire passer le message ! Partagez le contenu de cette page sur vos réseaux sociaux. C’est très simple, il suffit de cliquer sur les images pour les télécharger et de copier le texte que nous proposons. Nous rejoignons la communauté @FightTheFakes pour la 4ème édition de la #FTFweek afin de sensibiliser aux dangers des médicaments de qualité inférieure et aux #fakemeds ! Agissons ensemble car la santé n’est pas un canular #HealthIsNoHoax ! Read more…

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Spanish communications toolkit – Fight the Fakes Week 2021

¡Ayúdanos a difundir el mensaje! ¡Difunde los contenidos de esta página en tus redes sociales! Es muy fácil, sólo tienes que pinchar en las imágenes para descargarlas y copiar el texto que te proponemos. Nos unimos a la comunidad de @FightTheFakes para la 4ª edición de la Semana Contra los Medicamentos Falsos #FTFweek con el fin de crear conciencia sobre los peligros de los medicamentos subestándar. #fakemeds.   ¡Únete, te necesitamos! http://fightthefakes.org/week/4th-fight-the-fakes-week-6-12-december-2021/  🙅🏽‍♀️🙅🏽‍♂️No compres medicamentos a Read more…

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Fight the Fakes Alliance featured in the BMJ!

Kanchan Srivastava recently mentioned Fight the Fakes Alliance’s commitment to tackle the proliferation of fake and substandard medicines in the BMJ!  In this article, key experts share their views on what has enabled a global surge in black market sales of substandard and falsified medicines:    – Oksana Pyzik, leading the UCL Lead Global Citizenship Programme Outbreak of Infectious Disease and Founder of the UCL Fight The Fakes Academic Chapter.   – Alok Dhawan, Director of the Centre Read more…

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Join the Medicrime Convention’s 10th anniversary celebrations!

The Medicrime Convention, the first binding international instrument in the criminal law field that focuses on the criminal act of counterfeiting medical products and other crimes that threaten public health is celebrating its 10 year anniversary! 28 October 2021 marked the 10th Anniversary since the MEDICRIME Convention  opening for signature in Moscow. To celebrate this milestone, the Council of Europe has organized an online event that will take place on 2 December at 15h CET. Read more…

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World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2021

According to the World Health Organization (WHO) antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest threats to global health, food security, and development today. The misuse and overuse of antimicrobials, the poor access to quality, affordable medicines, vaccines and diagnostics and falsified and substandard (SF) antibiotics are among the causes of AMR.  Join us between 18-24 November to spread awareness and stop resistance for World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW)! You can use the resources below to spread the word about the Read more…

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3rd GS1 Healthcare Online Summit – Building on the Lagos Call to Action for Africa’s strategy for pharmaceutical traceability – 17 November 2021

The GS1 Healthcare Online Summit is a 3-day event (16 -18 November 2021) organised by GS1, who is one of the founding members of the recently launched Fight the Fakes Alliance. The event offers the opportunity to understand how global standards are being used across all parts of the healthcare supply chain – to help enable traceability and authenticity of products, in hospital clinical and supply processes, and in distribution. During the third day of Read more…

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Join our #StopFakeMeds Twitter Chat on 18 November

AMR is considered one of the top 10 global public health threats to humanity. Among the causes of AMR is the misuse and overuse of antimicrobials, the constrained access to quality, affordable medicines, vaccines and diagnostics, and falsified or substandard antibiotics. Today the dangers of falsified & substandard products related to COVID-19, such as vaccines and diagnostics, but also the misuse of antibiotics for treating complications related to COVID-19 is exacerbating the global health burden. Read more…

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African countries finally give continental medicines agency the go-ahead

Patients in Africa are a step closer to speedier access to newer, safer medicines following last week’s ratification of the African Medicines Agency (AMA) treaty by 15 African Union member countries.  On 5 October 2021, Cameroon became the 15th country to formally notify the African Union Commission that they had ratified the treaty, finally pushing the AMA over the threshold into reality. A further three countries have ratified the treaty but not formally informed the Read more…

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Rewatch the event: Eliminating Falsified Medicines in Africa – How legislative frameworks can help

Update: you can now rewatch the event! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZqn0br4fWMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjMmOJtjVKw Session 1: Policy and Legislation in fighting falsified medicines Session 2: Regulation industry response to falsified medicines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPOM2y50djA Session 3: Awareness Creation and Community Response Posted on 6 June 2021. Fight the Fakes Alliance’s member IFPMA (International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations) is joining hands with local Pharmaceutical Industry Associations from across the African continent to tackle the topic of falsified medicines and chart a robust Read more…

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