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 In September, 2018, the first international Medicine Quality and Public Health Conference was held at Oxford University, UK, to discuss opportunities and solutions to ensure that people worldwide have access to affordable and quality-assured medicines. Over 150 researchers, advocates and policymakers from around the world came together to issue the Oxford Statement calling for investment, policy change, and action to tackle the growing burden of substandard and falsified medicines. A recently published article in the Read more…

The World Health Organisation endorsed the establishment of a World Patient Safety Day to be held annually on 17 September!  The uplifting news came as a result of the WHA7.6 Resolution ‘Global Action on Patient Safety’ passed on May 28, 2019 at the World Health Assembly in Geneva.  This first year’s theme focuses on  ‘Patient Safety: a global health priority’ and in order to give it the necessary attention our partner, the International Alliance of Patients’ Organisations (IAPO) is Read more…

Fight the Fakes partner NCD Alliance is dedicating this week (2-8 September 2019) to raise awareness about Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) and highlight the importance of Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Taking action under the flag ENOUGH. Global Week for Action on NCDs and UHC, the organisation encourages the global health community and individuals to add their voice and stand with NCD Alliance for the right to healthy lives for all by saying ENOUGH. Explore https://enoughncds.com/ to Read more…

A coalition of the world’s leading health and rights organizations including Fondation Botnar, Women Deliver, PATH, and the Partnership on Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health released a new report on August 12 – International #YouthDay – titled: “Health & Technology: What do young people think?”   Fight the Fakes contributed to the report by sharing the survey among their network! You can access the full report here, or read our brief summary below!   Over Read more…

Two new reports were released last week focusing on the prevalence and impact of illicit trade on people’s well-being with both reports also highlighting the detrimental implications of falsified medicines. The report ‘Mapping the Impact of Illicit Trade on the Sustainable Development Goals’ released by the Transnational Alliance to Combat Illicit Trade (TRACIT) investigates illicit trade in 12 key sectors, among them pharmaceutical products, and maps these against the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Read more…

Since our successful side event during the World Health Assembly in Geneva at the end of May, our campaign and the issue of falsified medicines has received great attention the media! First and foremost, a lengthy article in the Guardian ‘Fight the fakes: how to beat the $200bn medicine counterfeiters’ explores the devastating health impact falsified medicines can have on people by illustrating a real-life example of a teenager who died in a hospital in Read more…