USP’s resources and tools to protect the supply chain of SF COVID-19 health products

Fight The Fakes’ member U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) has recently published a suite of resources and tools to detect substandard and falsified COVID-19 treatments. The supply and demand imbalances caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has created a surge in substandard and falsified treatments and these resources aim to assist manufacturers, regulators, and quality control laboratories in helping to ensure quality COVID-19 treatments are being procured, produced, and distributed. For their creation, USP collaborated with public health organizations, pharmacopeias, regulators, and manufacturers to help Read more…

Social media toolkit for ‘Old Problem, New Foes – Time to act against falsified medicines and vaccines for COVID-19’

The Fight the Fakes flagship event  ‘Old Problem, New Foes – Time to act against falsified medicines and vaccines for COVID-19‘ is taking place on the side-lines of the 74th World Health Assembly, on 25 May 2021, 13:00 – 14:00 PM CEST. Now let’s spread the word and #FightTheFakes on social media! We invite you to use our messages and download the visual assets from below. Ready to use messages: Share on facebook Raising awareness about #fake Read more…

3rd GS1 Executive Dialogue – Securing Trust in the Global COVID-19 supply chain – 26 May 2021

In the last few months, we have witnessed a steady increase in reports of fake Covid-19 medicines and vaccines reports all around the globe. It is an alarming situation, especially in those countries with fewer resources where Covid-19 is affecting the population hardest. The GS1 Executive Dialogues is a unique opportunity to get essential practical information to successfully implement GS1 standards in the pandemic context. This 3rd edition will be focused on learnings from concrete standards Read more…

Nurses: A Voice to Lead – A vision for future healthcare.

Nurses: A Voice to Lead A vision for future healthcare Each year International Nurses’ Day encourages us to reflect on the crucial role nurses play in the promotion and protection of public health. However, this year it is more important than ever to give them the support and recognition they deserve. Nurses devote all their efforts to the promotion of public health and without them, we certainly would not have come so far in the fight Read more…

Old Problem, New Foes – Time to act against falsified medicines and vaccines for COVID-19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI6hHJG5pGk Fighters, it’s time to act against the growing threat of falsified products produced and sold as treatments and vaccines for COVID-19!  Reports of falsified and substandard products sold as COVID-19 treatments and vaccines continue to increase at a worrying pace across the globe, hindering efforts to contain the pandemic, putting lives at risk, and inciting vaccine hesitancy. The exponential use of antimicrobials and countries falling short of medicines supplies could encourage criminals to produce Read more…

Fighting the Fakes for World Malaria Day

Photo by AMISOM via Iwaria World Malaria Day reminds us, as if we had ever forgotten, that fatal diseases that have afflicted humanity long before COVID-19 are still responsible for hundreds of thousands of avoidable deaths each year. It is a time to reflect that, in a world where heart-breaking images of children suffering from famine, war and neglect can spur us into action, the devastating impact of malaria on the youngest infants in sub-Saharan Read more…

Victoria Amponsah’s Story (repost from 2013)

The day Victoria Amponsah was diagnosed with malaria she also learned that she was two months pregnant. She left the hospital with a prescription for an anti-malarial drug and, like patients anywhere else in the world, went to a local pharmacy believing that the medicine she purchased would treat her condition. Victoria bought what she thought was a genuine, effective drug, but that was not the case. Her condition quickly worsened and within hours she Read more…

Update: Medical Product Quality Report from IDDO on COVID-19 vaccines – February & March issues

According to the Medicine Quality Research Group, Centre of Tropical Medicine & Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine and the University of Oxford’s Medical Product Quality Report – COVID-19 vaccine issues from March 2021, between 12th March 2020 and 5 th March 2021 76 reports of diverted or SF COVID-19 vaccines from 28 countries appeared in the press. When the vaccines were stated as unauthorised copies of approved vaccines, they were copies of products from Pfizer/BioNTech, AstraZeneca, Read more…

IFPW Foundation’s 2021 Virtual Benefit – 29-30 April 2021

Every year our founding member IFPW Foundation organises its central fundraising event, thanks to which also the mission of Fight the Fakes is being supported! This year the benefit will take place online which means that you too can participate to learn more about the initiatives that IFPW Foundation is committed to.  Register here Proceeds will directly support the continuation of global efforts by the IFPW Foundation to improve access to safe and effective medicines Read more…

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