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Burkina Faso signs the Medicrime Convention

With 26 signatories and 5 ratifying countries, Burkina Faso became the latest country to sign the Medicrime convention on the 17 February 2017. Adopted in 2010 by the Council of Europe and entering into force in 2016, the Medicrime convention is the first international legal treaty to protect patients from the threat of fake medicines. It is the only international legal instrument that has made it a criminal offence to produce and distribute fake medical Read more…

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Press Release: Alternance à la tête de la campagne mondiale de prévention contre les faux médicaments Fight the Fakes

To download the press release, click here. Press Release: Alternance à la tête de la campagne mondiale de prévention contre les faux médicaments Fight the Fakes Dès aujourd’hui, l’International Federation of Pharmaceutical Wholesalers (IFPW) (Fédération internationale des répartiteurs pharmaceutiques) assure le secrétariat de Fight the Fakes (« Contrer les contrefaçons »), la campagne mondiale de sensibilisation aux dangers que les faux médicaments font courir aux patients et à la santé publique en général. Lancée en novembre Read more…

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PRESS RELEASE: Leadership rotation at Fight the Fakes, the worldwide campaign to protect people from fake medicines

Fight the Fakes Press Release: Leadership rotation at Fight the Fakes, the worldwide campaign to protect people from fake medicines Today the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Wholesalers (IFPW) begins its role as secretariat of Fight the Fakes, the global campaign to raise awareness of the threat fake medicines pose to people and public health. Launched in November 2013, Fight the Fakes has grown into a coalition of over 30 organizations, including healthcare professionals, academia, NGOs, the Read more…

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PR: Leadership rotation at Fight the Fakes, the worldwide campaign to protect people from fake medicines, Securing Industry, February 2017

This article was originally published in: Securing Industry PR: Leadership rotation at Fight the Fakes, the worldwide campaign to protect people from fake medicines 09-Feb-2017 Entering the campaign’s fourth year, Fight the Fakes is pleased to announce the rotation of its secretariat to the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Wholesalers (IFPW), and made possible through the support of IFPW Foundation. Since its launch in 2013, the campaign’s secretariat has been held by the International Federation of Read more…

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Fight the Fakes secretariat transitions to IFPW

Launched in November 2013, Fight the Fakes has grown into a coalition of over 30 organizations, including healthcare professionals, academia, NGOs, the generic and research-based pharmaceutical industry, healthcare distributers, and consumer protection organizations. Fight the Fakes is pleased to announce the transition of its secretariat to the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Wholesalers (IFPW). Since the campaign’s launch in 2013, the role of secretariat has been held by the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA). As the Read more…

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IP Watch: WHO Board Agrees To Drop The Word ‘Counterfeit’ After 30 Year

This article was originally posted in: Intellectual Property Watch WHO Board Agrees To Drop The Word ‘Counterfeit’ After 30 Years 30/01/2017 BY WILLIAM NEW, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY WATCH For nearly 30 years, the United Nations World Health Organization has been referring to poor-quality and fake medicines as counterfeit. But that is about to change. The new words approved by the WHO Executive Board on 27 January are “substandard and falsified,” which captures whether the drug is Read more…

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IFPMA and FIP deliver statements at the WHO Executive Board

The World Health Organization and its member states have identified substandard/spurious/falsely-labelled/falsified/counterfeit (SSFFC) medical products as a serious threat to patients and public health. SSFFC medicinal products were discussed today by the WHO Executive Board and its member states. Fight the Fakes is pleased to announce that partners FIP and IFPMA made statements on the issue of falsified medicines and the need for joint, coordinated effort. FIP praised initiatives from governments and public and private sectors Read more…

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The risk of buying medicines online

Ever wondered what to look out for when buying a medicine online? Our partner the International Institute of Research Against Counterfeit Medicines (IRACM) is relaunching its 12 Golden Rules campaign. The campaign aims to protect the health of patients and the wider public by providing practical advice on how to buy medicines safely online. In this video Tony and Max discuss buying slimming pills from a website. Watch to find out what happens!

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Fake medicines: threat to patient health and safety

Fake medicines pose a threat to patient safety, as they are often manufactured in unlicensed, unregulated and often unsanitary sites, and it can be impossible to know what’s inside them without chemical analysis. They can contain the wrong dose of active pharmaceutical ingredient, the wrong ingredients or even harmful substances. See the feature on fake medicines in Pharmaceuticals Policy and Law edition: “The Globalisation of the Pharmaceutical Industry” to learn why fake medicines present a risk to public Read more…

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Medicrime Convention

Now that France has ratified the Medicrime Convention, the International Institute for Research against Counterfeit Medicines (IRACM), the only international entity entirely dedicated to combatting counterfeit healthcare products, appealed to all the countries that signed it to rally together and implement this convention as soon as possible, thereby protecting all populations from this scourge that affects 10% of medicines sold worldwide. Click here to read the full press release.

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