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Just before summer vacations and the departure of numerous French holiday makers abroad, IRACM together with the French National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI), the National Union of the Students in Pharmacy of France (ANEPF), the French National Pharmacists Council (ONP) and the French anti-piracy committee (CNAC) launched on June 28, 2016 a nationwide campaign to raise awareness among the general public about good habits to adopt in relation to medications before their travel, at Read more…

To download the full study from Health Policy Planning, click here. Abstract of “Public health interventions to protect against falsified medicines: A systematic review of international, national, and local policies” Falsified medicines are deliberately fraudulent drugs that pose a direct risk to patient health and undermine healthcare systems, causing global morbidity and mortality. Objective: To produce an overview of anti-falsifying public health interventions deployed at international, national, and local scales in low and middle income Read more…

On 17 June 2016, Fight the Fakes participated in a stakeholder roundtable with expert organizations involved in protecting people from illicit medicines online in the EU. The meeting, convened by our partner Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacy in the EU (ASOP EU) and hosted at Google offices in Brussels, welcomed representatives from ASOP Global, the Institute of Research Against Counterfeit Medicines (IRACM), the European Healthcare Fraud and Corruption Network (EHFCN), the National Association of Boards Read more…

This week a Ministerial Conference takes place in Douala, Cameroon, on central African cooperation in the fight against fake medicines. This takes place under the organizations of the Communauté Économique et Monétaire des Etats de l’Afrique Centrale (CEMAC) and Organisation de Coordination et de Coopération pour la lutte contre les Grandes Endémies en Afrique Centrale (OCEAC). More information here.

On June 20, 2016, IRACM together with the French anti-piracy committee (CNAC) organized a conference-debate on drug counterfeiting at the Luxembourg palace. The event brought together a hundred people coming from both the private and the public sector as well as from NGOs. Experts from international organizations (WCO, Interpol, Council of Europe, Chirac Foundation, IRACM) and national organizations (French National Pharmacists Council, Central office against attacks towards the environment and public, customs, French Pharmaceutical Companies Read more…

The Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies (ASOP Global), Center for Safe Internet Pharmacies (CSIP) and National Consumers League (NCL) are joining forces to educate seniors and their caregivers about the health and financial risks associated with buying prescription medicines from illegal or rogue online pharmacies, and to provide them with the tools they need to stay safe when shopping for prescription drugs online. Learn more out their campaign here and discover their new infographic below!  

Fight the Fakes partners the International Pharmaceutical Students’ Federation (IPSF) and the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA) hosted on 27 May an event at the 69th annual World Health Assembly (WHA69). The event was made up of a panel discussion with speakers from IPSF, the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), and the Tanzanian Food and Drugs Authority, and moderated by Catherine Fiankan Bokonga. See speaker biographies here. Interventions were made from the floor from Fight Read more…

This article was originally published in Securing Industry. Medicines for Europe joints counterfeit medicines campaign 30-May-2016 Medicines for Europe announced at a satellite meeting of the World Health Assembly that it has joined the Fight the Fakes campaign. Medicines for Europe (formerly the EGA) – which represents generic and biosimilar drugmakers – said that the move “acknowledges the magnitude of the problem related to the existence and spread of fake medicines.” Fight the Fakes “represents Read more…

This statement was made at the World Health Assembly by the International Pharmaceutical Students’ Federation (IPSF) on behalf of all Fight the Fakes partners. Meeting: Sixty-ninth World Health Assembly (A69/1) Agenda Item: 16.3 Substandard/spurious/falsely-labelled/falsified/counterfeit medical products Speaker: Ana Duarte, IPSF Statement: Honorable Chair, Distinguished Delegates, Today, IPSF speaks on behalf of all members of the Fight the Fakes campaign. Together, we represent pharmacists, doctors and nurses, research institutes, medicine manufacturers, nonprofits, mobile health services, wholesalers, Read more…