IFPMA – Websérie Médicaments à la maison: La contrefaçon

LEEM websérie sur les médicaments à la maison : la nouvelle websérie du Leem « Médicaments à la maison » aborde avec pédagogie la question des comportements responsables à adopter face aux médicaments dans la vie de tous les jours. Faut-il lire et conserver la notice ? Pourquoi suivre la prescription du médecin ? Peut-on emprunter des médicaments à un ami ? Comment éviter les faux médicaments ? Regardez l’épisode 2 sur les faux médicaments.

Strategic Alliance Formed in Ghana to Fight Fake Medicines

The Global Pharma Health Fund (GPHF) and the Centre for Pharmaceutical Advancement and Training (CePAT) of Ghana, a facility established by the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP), have formed an alliance in the fight against fake medicines. The partnership aims to build local capacities in pharmaceutical quality assurance and control. Dr. Stephen K. Opuni, CEO of the Ghana Food and Drugs Authority, has stated he regards CePAT as “one of the most important initiatives to ever be Read more…

IRACM – Database Gathering Technologies Against Counterfeiting and Fake Medicines

IRACM publishes a free access online database of the key systems to fight against counterfeiting of pharmaceutical products: the authentication systems (overt and covert, analysis equipment, etc.), identification systems (data matrix) and traceability of pharmaceutical products on the market. Visit IRACM database to learn more about these tools.

ICN – Position on Falsified Medicines

ICN is very concerned with the growing problem of counterfeit medicines and the negative consequences on the prevention and treatment of disease, which can include poor treatment outcomes or failure of treatment, loss of confidence in health care, resistance to antibiotics and poisoning due to harmful ingredients. Download the position paper. Le CII est très préoccupé par le problème des médicaments de contrefaçon et leurs effets négatifs sur la prévention et le traitement des maladies. Read more…

ICN – Counterfeit Medicines Project

ICN is very concerned with the growing problem of counterfeit medicines and the negative consequences on the prevention and treatment of disease, which can include poor treatment outcomes or failure of treatment, loss of confidence in health care, resistance to antibiotics and poisoning due to harmful ingredients. ICN supports international initiatives to combat counterfeiting and urges nurses and national nurses associations (NNAs) to collaborate with pharmacists, physicians and others to disseminate accurate information on detection Read more…

USP – Redefining Access: A Global Commitment to Quality in Public Health

USP: According to the World Health Organization, an estimated 25-60% of the medicine supply in developing countries is either substandard or counterfeit. Poor quality medicine undermines public and private investments in global health, while leading to severe illness, drug resistance, and death. In an effort to combat falsified, substandard and counterfeit medicines in Sub-Saharan Africa, USP  launched the Center for Pharmaceutical Advancement and Training in Accra, Ghana. Watch this video and be part of in the Read more…

Fake Medicines: The New Face of Organized Crime

The Institute of Research Against Counterfeit Medicines (IRACM) has published a study on the typology of criminals to help shed light on some of the players in this illicit transnational network. Case studies include individual opportunists that benefit from online anonymity to set up illegal importation routes, white collar criminals that combine legal activities with illegal ones to mask their operations and cybercriminals that set up online pharmacies to spam users with the promise of Read more…

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