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‘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…

Check out the Fight the Fakes statement!   In light of the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) having entered into its operational phase on February 9 (read our previous FTF update here), the MEP José Inácio Faria (EPP, Portugal) in collaboration with the European Alliance for Access to Safe Medicines (EAASM) hosted a roundtable discussion with the topic “Improving patient safety with the FMD in the hospital pharmacy, status of implementation” in the European Parliament in Brussels Read more…

Our partner, the International Pharmaceutical Students’ Federation (IPSF) is hosting a series of online webinars from Tuesday to Friday, February 19-22, on the topic of substandard and #fakemeds! Over the course of four days, one webinar per day will take place with one key speaker each, among them speakers from our partners the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), the Global Pharma Health Fund e.V. (GPHF) and U.S. Pharmacopeia! Don’t wait and sign up now! To register Read more…

On 9th February the EU Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) (Directive 2011/62/EU) will have finally entered its concluding phase for making the medicines supply chain safer from falsified medicines based on legal measures and through the European Medicines Verification System. According to the regulation all the prescription medicinal products need to carry the following safety features on their external packaging. A 2D matrix code that contains a unique serial number. It looks something like this Fight the Read more…

Fight the Fakes marks World Cancer Day on 4th February and supports the call for more equity in cancer care and making global cancer burden reduction a global priority. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) cancer is the second leading cause of death in the world estimating 9.6 million deaths 2018. However 30 to 50 % of cancer deaths are preventable and the way to improve this is by engaging further efforts into prevention Read more…