You didn’t have time to attend our side event at the World Health Assembly in Geneva in May? No worries – you can watch the highlights video now on YouTube! In less than 4min you will hear our key speakers and panellists talk about the role of youth and digital health in fighting fake medicines. Just click on the YouTube icon below and it will direct you straight to the video!
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…
A new infographic by our partners Partnership for Safe Medicines (PSM) and the Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies (ASOP Global) helps explain the deadly impact counterfeit medicines have, where they come from, and how they contribute to microbial resistance. Find the full infographic, ready to download here!
Adebayo (left), aged 21, with his friend Peter at the Centenary celebration of alma mater- King’s College Lagos I grew up in a relatively small town in Nigeria with my parents and sister. My mother worked as a banker in IT programming and my father was an automotive engineer – both had very high academic ambitions for me and fully supported my education. I loved to play chess, ran track, engaged in debates and attended 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…
Fight the Fakes partner, the International Pharmaceutical Students Federation (IPSF), delivered a brilliant statement at this year’s World Health Assembly on the growing issue of falsified and substandard medicines. In their statement, IPSF highlighted the crucial role pharmacists play in combating falsified medicines. Yet, they urged for an increased vigilance from Member States, as well as the WHO, in order to ensure the security of the entire supply chain. Only through collaboration is it possible Read more…
Fight the Fakes partner the International Council of Nurses (ICN) delivered a statement during this year’s World Health Assembly, May 2019, targeting the provisional agenda item 12.2. Member State mechanism on substandard and falsified medical products. ICN displayed its commitment to address the problem of substandard and falsified medical products and positioned nurses as key actors in developing action plans to detect and respond to fake medicines. Furthermore they underlined the importance of awareness about falsified 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…
Adebayo Alonge – an avid advocate of raising awareness about the issue of falsified medicines and one of the key speakers of our event ‘Digital Natives Fight Fake Medicines’ which took place on Monday, 20th May, along the side lines of the World Health Assembly, is taking part in the new blog ‘5 questions to…’ by Fight the Fakes founding partner the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA)! Adebayo was born in Nigeria Read more…
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