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Our academic partner the Medical University Warsaw is hosting a conference on the topic of “Pharmaceutical crime during the COVID-19 pandemic” on the occasion of this year’s FTF Week!  It will take place online on Wednesday, 9 December 2020, from 3-7pm! The University is planning to hold second event in early 2021 in English language, this conference is unfortunately only available in Polish.   Link to register for the Conference: https://farmacjakryminalistyczna.wum.edu.pl/node/127   Find out more about Read more…

  During this year’s Fight the Fakes Week, our academic chapter, Kings College London will be hosting a series of exciting webinars to help raise awareness about the dangers of substandard and falsified medicines – through the pandemic and beyond! The webinars will explore different aspects of the issue of falsified medicines and various high-level speakers from our partner organisations are among the line-up! The scheduled webinars are the following: Thursday 3 Dec: Introducing falsified Read more…

  The World Antimicrobial Awareness Week aims to increase awareness of global antimicrobial resistance and to encourage best practices among the general public, health workers and policy makers to stop the further emergence and spread of drug-resistant infections. The theme for this year’s World Antimicrobial Awareness Week is “United to preserve antimicrobials.”  Antibiotics are among the most falsified medical products and the proliferation of these vital drugs  contribute to rising levels of AMR.  This year, Read more…

Geneva Health Forum 2020   This year’s virtual Geneva Health Forum will take place on the 16-19th November. Fight the Fakes will have a virtual booth to raise awareness on the dangers of substandard and falsified medicines to a wider audience.  To visit our booth and enjoy the forum register here.  The Fight the Fakes booth will be there, will you?           

The World Health Summit session entitled “Fighting Falsified and Substandard (SF) Medicines during the COVID-19 Crisis” took place on the 27th of October and explored the challenges the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic placed on stakeholders to control and combat rising levels of SF medicines. Although the pandemic has exposed how widespread and porous supply chains across the global are, the majority of the burden is still shouldered by low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Constrained access to Read more…

Originally published by the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy on the 28th July 2019.   It’s estimated that 1 in 10 medical products in developing nations are substandard or falsified – a problem that the COVID-19 pandemic has exaggerated. That’s where Fight the Fakes comes in, a global campaign to raise awareness about the dangers of falsified and substandard medicines… Founded in 2013 by 10 members, the Fight the Fakes campaign was born out of Read more…

Our newest partner, GS1 will be hosting a 3 day online summit, which will serve as an online global conversation, bringing together the global community of healthcare stakeholders in a new fast paced and interactive format. Secure and robust medical supply chains increase patient safety and improve the traceability of medicines. The use of GS1’s unique barcode visibility on medicine packing is one of the most commonly known global standards in healthcare that help #FightTheFakes.  Read more…

On the 29th of September, which officially marks World Heart Day, the World Heart Federation will be launching the 4th phase of their World Heart Day campaign where they’re asking the world to “Use Heart to beat cardiovascular disease (CVD)” for loved ones and societies to tackle the effects of the pandemic on CVD.   To help raise awareness on the dangers of substandard and falsified cardiovascular medicines and the rise of reports due to the Read more…