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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…

Fight the Fakes together with our partner, University College London’s (UCL) Fight the Fakes chapter, just held the event ‘Digital Natives Fight Fake Medicines’ on the side lines of the 72nd World Health Assembly in Geneva – and it was a great success! Over 150 people from all parts of the world, representing academia, industry, governments and NGOs, attended our event and tweeted about it on social media. The hashtag #FightTheFakes even became the Nr.1 Read more…

Fight the Fakes together with our partner, the Fight the Fakes chapter of the University College London (UCL), just held the event ‘Digital Natives Fight Fake Medicines’ on the side lines of the 72nd World Health Assembly in Geneva – and it was a great success! Over 150 people from all parts of the world, representing academia, industry, governments and NGOs, attended our event and tweeted about it on social media. The hashtag #FightTheFakes even Read more…

Our successful side event ‘DIGITAL NATIVES FIGHT FAKE MEDICINES’ which took place on Monday, May 20, during the first day of this year’s World Health Assembly was highlighted in a recent article in Health Policy Watch. Launched in 2018, Health Policy Watch is a digital platform for professional, independent reporting on the top global health policy debates, trends and news from Geneva and worldwide. Read a great summary report about our event in the article Read more…