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  Fight the Fakes and the Fight the Fakes chapter of the University College London (UCL) are hosting the event ‘Digital Natives Fight Fake Medicines – How tech start-ups & youth are driving the development of innovative technologies in the fight against falsified medicines’ at the side-lines of the 72nd World Health Assembly in Geneva on Monday, 20th May! Our event will explore how blockchain, apps, nanoscanners and digital technology more generally have great potential Read more…

To mark this year’s World Malaria Day, George Jagoe, the Executive Vice President for Access and Product Management of our partner Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV), published an opinion piece in the New Times Rwanda to address the growing burden of falsified antimalarials and its serious consequences for the global goal of malaria elimination! In recent years the progress towards eradicating malaria has stalled, and various factors have been identified to contributing this stagnation, such Read more…

April 25 marks World Malaria Day and Fight the Fakes is supporting the call to reignite the global movement towards malaria elimination! From 2000 until 2015 the global health community annually celebrated the successful progress in the reduction of malaria cases in almost every country worldwide. Yet since 2016 this progress has stalled, particularly across the 10 highest burden countries in sub-Saharan Africa. ‘All countries have committed to ending malaria by 2030 […] WHO’s world Read more…

Falsified medicines pose a serious health threat for individuals around the world, no matter the country, age or gender. With them come vast financial and socioeconomic costs that make fake medicines an undeniable roadblock in achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2030. But there are opportunities that patients, governments, NGOs and other stakeholders should take into account in the fight against falsified medicines. These opportunities come from the young digital savvys of our time. Register to our Read more…

To mark the occasion of World Health Day, Howard Catton, CEO from our partner the International Council of Nurses (ICN) published an op-ed in Nigeria Health Watch to highlight the crucial role health care professionals, such as nurses, and digital health solutions play in the fight against falsified medicines. Particularly in Nigeria, the issue of falsified medicines is a prevalent and growing issue, yet recent innovative technological solutions developed by young Nigerian entrepreneurs are one Read more…

Every year on the 7th of April the global health community is celebrating ‘World Health Day’. The awareness day was first created by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 1950 and is seen as an opportunity by the organization to draw attention to a subject of major importance in global health each year. This year’s theme is universal health coverage (UHC) and the Fight the Fakes campaign wishes to mark the occasion by highlighting the link between Read more…

Fight the Fakes is thrilled to be named as one of the organisations addressing falsified medicines in a new review article in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene which was published on March 11. In the article, titled ‘Falsified and Substandard Drugs: Stopping the Pandemic’, doctors are describing the growing global prevalence of falsified medicines as a ‘public health emergency’. They are urging the global health community to step up their efforts in Read more…

‘The Traffickers’ is a 2016 British-American 8-part investigative television series on Netflix about the illegal trafficking of goods – and one of their episodes is focusing on the global illegal trade of falsified medicine! The British journalist and TV host Nelufar Hedayat follows the trail of a global criminal network of falsified medicines – starting in Benin where she meets with patients, doctors and pharmacists to Nigeria where she interviews traffickers, she ultimately arrives in Read more…