Fight the Fakes Alliance at GS1 Healthcare Online Summit, 20-22 April 2021

The GS1 Healthcare Online Summit is a 3-day event (20-22 April 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. Fight the Fakes Alliance will be Read more…

World Health Day celebrated under the theme of Health Equity

Today, on 7 April, the global health community is celebrating World Health Day under the theme of Health Equity, proposed by the World Health Organisation (WHO).  The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified social, economic, and health inequities. Living a healthy live, and getting easier access to health services more than others, depends on where you are born, live, work, and age. Much needs to be done in order to fight the enormous differences that exist between countries and communities, in relation Read more…

Counterfeit Medicines in Africa webinar on April 7th, 2021, organised by APDA, African Pharmaceutical Distribution Association

Fight the Fakes invites you to a webinar dedicated to #fakemeds in Africa The webinar will take place on 7 April 2021, from 6:00 pm CET, and is organised by the African Pharmaceutical Distribution Association.  Don’t miss the presentation from Adam Aspinall, Senior Director, Access and Product Management, Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) and Chair of Fight the Fakes Alliance. AGENDA Lahcen Senhaji, Welcome Blaise Nodem, Executive Director APDA – About APDA Adam Aspinall – Read more…

Fight the Fakes made it to Forbes magazine!

Dr Judy Stone, Infectious Disease specialist, recently talked about Fight the Fakes work and the risks of fake medicines in Forbes magazine.  The author started the article by describing the grim situation of the black market for fake Covid-19 vaccines and vaccination cards which has been rapidly growing worldwide, increasing by more than 400% just over the last year, according to CheckPoint. People have been taking advantage of crisis and vulnerable people for years, producing and selling Read more…

WHO Policy paper on traceability of medical products

The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently published a policy paper bringing together the available knowledge around existing traceability systems with the aim to support national regulatory authorities in setting up and ensuring an efficient traceability of medical products. A strong system able to trace medicines in real-time along the supply chain will have a positive impact on the early detection of falsified and substandard medicines, allowing also for appropriate responses. If implemented the right Read more…

Déclaration officielle sur la COVID-19 et les produits médicaux falsifiés

Alliance Fight the Fakes: Déclaration officielle sur la COVID-19 et les produits médicaux falsifiés L’Alliance Fight the Fakes est profondément préoccupée par la menace importante que la pandémie de COVID-19 fait peser sur les progrès de la santé mondiale. L’impact à long terme de cette crise sur notre société n’est pas encore clair, mais d’autres conséquences plus immédiates sont déjà visibles. La pénurie de médicaments et de vaccins liée à l’épidémie de coronavirus a conduit Read more…

Updated statement regarding COVID-19 and falsified medical products

Fight the Fakes Alliance: Official statement to COVID-19 and falsified medical products The Fight the Fakes Alliance is deeply concerned by the significant threat that the current COVID-19 pandemic poses to global health progress. It is not yet clear how this crisis will impact our society in the long term, but other more immediate consequences are already visible. Medicines and vaccines shortages related to the coronavirus outbreak have resulted in patients  taking matters into their Read more…

Why the African Medicines Agency? Why Now?

On 10 March, a panel discussion entitled “Why the African Medicines Agency? Why Now?” organised by Fight The Fakes members IAPO and IFPMA took place at the Africa Health Agenda International Conference 2021. The session sought to explain why the African Medicines Agency (AMA) is key to achieving Universal Health Coverage in Africa and how it can help to optimise sustainability in the supply of medicinal and healthcare products for diseases disproportionately affecting Africa. It follows Read more…

Join the 2nd GS1 Executive Dialogue on 18 March!

Don’t miss the second GS1 Executive Dialogue focusing on securing trust in the global COVID-19 supply chain! After a successful first edition, GS1 Healthcare is back with a new line-up of speakers to showcase practical experiences and recommendations for the use of global standards to achieve safe and efficient distribution and administration of COVID-19 vaccines. As the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines becomes a reality, stakeholders from across the globe need to collaborate to ensure these Read more…

Update on COVID-19 linked substandard and falsified medical products from IDDO – January & February issues

The Medicine Quality Research Group, Centre of Tropical Medicine & Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine and the University of Oxford have released their latest Medical Product Quality Report – COVID-19 issues, with results from February 2021. In this issue, 55 new alerts on COVID-19 products were reported on the Medicines Quality Monitoring Globe. Almost half of the alerts concerned diverted, substandard or falsified (SF) COVID-19 vaccines. Out of the 24 articles on vaccine incidents, two Read more…

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