STORIES
Message de Sidi Touré sur les médicaments de la rue
(French/English) Alors qu’on les achète pour se soigner, les médicaments de la rue tuent. Nombreux sont ceux qui achètent leurs médicaments au bord de la route car ils sont meilleur marché. Dans de nombreux cas, c’est un parent ou une connaissance qui vous conseille de tenter le coup. Il est vrai aussi que la propension naturelle à préférer la médecine traditionnelle nous éloigne parfois de la médecine classique et de ce fait des pharmacies. Moi-même, Read more…
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The Partnership for Safe Medicines Interchange 2014
On September 18, 2014 in Washington, DC thought leaders, policy makers, patient advocates, law enforcement, medicine makers, suppliers and pharmacists will gather to discuss the state of patient safety in a world with counterfeit drugs. Learn what leaders are doing about the problems of counterfeit drugs. Speakers from the World Customs Organization, the US Food and Drug Administration, the Pharmaceutical Security Institute, the Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies as well as prominent researchers, pharmacists and Read more…
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USP Selects Global Fellow for Work on Fake Medicine Detection
Fight the Fakes partner United States Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) has awarded a Global Fellowship to a chemistry graduate student from the University of Notre Dame, in Indiana, for his work related to fake medicine detection. The fellow, Nicholas Myers, supports Professor Marya Lieberman in the development of the Paper Analytical Device (PAD) project. This paper-based technology to test for the presence of various substances in medicines is being adapted to detect pharmaceuticals that do not Read more…
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USP and ASOP join forces to tackle illegal online medicines
The US Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) has joined with the Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies (ASOP) to combat the threat posed by the illegal online sale of medicines. Fake medicines sold online are a huge threat – more than 50% of medicines sold worldwide from illegal online sources are fake. This new partnership will help tackle the public health threat posed by illegal online sales of medicine. Ronald T. Piervincenzi, chief executive officer of USP, said Read more…
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Conclusion of IPSF 60thWorld Congress in Porto
August 1st to 10th this year saw our Partner, the International Pharmaceutical Students’ Federation’s, annual congress in Porto, Portugal. The congress is the biggest and the most important annual event for pharmacy students, and this year hosted more than 750 participants from all over the world. The busy agenda included trainings, symposia, workshops and campaigning. Fake medicines are everybody’s business, but they are a particular menace to healthcare providers, who work to ensure people are Read more…
INFORMATIONAL MATERIALS
Toolkit on Fake Medicines for Pharmacy Students
While training to be a pharmacist, have you ever thought about the risk of fake medicines to patients in your country and how it might affect your job? Fake medicines put patients at risk and undermines advancements in public health. People believe they are receiving genuine treatment, but instead they are getting potentially dangerous products that could increase resistance to real treatments, and cause further illness, disability or even death. What’s more, they undermine patients Read more…
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Seminar: Protecting Patients from Falsified Medicines Online
Our Partners ASOP, ASOP EU and CSIP have hosted a seminar on ‘Protecting Patients from Falsified Medicines Online’ in Brussels. Officials from the European Commission, the United States government, as well as key stakeholders from the US and EU healthcare and Internet commerce communities, patient groups, and other non-government organisations were in attendance. In the EU and the US, there are over 30,000 online pharmacy websites active at any one time – and 97% of Read more…
STORIES
Taking action to stop the rising threat of fake medicines in Uganda
Update: Dr. Thomas Egwang has launched a campaign, EquipmentAgainstFakes, to help raise funds for his lab’s purchasing of equipment for detecting fake medicines. Click here to see what you can do to help! My name is Dr. Thomas Egwang, and I am the Senior Scientist at Med Biotech Laboratories in Uganda. I have been on a combination of two anti-hypertensive drugs for the past ten years. These drugs have their own side effects. I have lost Read more…