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BBC News Africa’s ‘What’s New’ series on how to fight fake medicines

Dr. Bahijja Raimi-Abraham, founder and academic lead of KCL’s Fight the Fakes academic chapter explains how to spot fake medicines in one of the videos. BBC News Africa gives visibility to the global health issue of falsified and substandard medicines in its new BBC ‘What’s New and Actu Jeunes’ Youtube channel! BBC ‘What’s New and Actu Jeunes’ youtube channel, BBC’s first bilingual YouTube channel for teenagers, makes films in English and French about the issues Read more…

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Health is not a Hoax – The Power of Legislation & Collaboration in Fighting Fake Medicines – webinar recording

Since 2018 Fight the Fakes, first as a campaign and now as an Alliance, has celebrated its annual Fight the Fakes Week to raise awareness about the dangers of substandard and falsified medicines among allies, members, key global health stakeholders, and the wider public. During 2022 Fight the Fakes Week, Fight the Fakes’ founding member the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations partnered with its Africa-based sister associations to facilitate a discussion on the importance Read more…

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New study alerts to the risk of poor quality medicines used to prevent and treat cardiovascular disease

The recently published ‘The quality of medical products for cardiovascular diseases: a gap in global cardiac care’ paper, shows that one fifth of medicines reported as sampled in the literature were substandard or falsified. The research was carried out by experts from the MORU Tropical Health Network together with IDDO scientists. Given the very limited available data, the obtained findings – out of 4,703 medical products for cardiovascular diseases samples, 17.5 per cent were falsified or substandard – Read more…

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‘Global solutions to confront substandard and falsified COVID-19 vaccines’ webinar replay

Rewatch our Fight the Fakes Week webinar! Event highlights Previous Next The world has never seen a global vaccine rollout on the scale of the COVID-19 response. Ten to fourteen billion doses of vaccine are estimated to be required to protect the global population against death and severe illness while controlling transmission. Vaccine manufacturers, regulatory authorities, logistics experts, healthcare systems, and healthcare practitioners are facing the challenge of producing and delivering these billions of doses Read more…

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Fight the Fakes Alliance gains official “Observer” status at the Medicrime Convention Committee of the Parties

During the 5th plenary session of the Medicrime Committee that took place on 1 December 2021, the Committee of the Parties voted in favour of granting the official status of Observer to the Fight the Fakes Alliance. The Medicrime Convention, drafted by the Council of Europe, constitutes the first binding international instrument in the criminal law field that focuses on the criminal act of counterfeiting medical products and other crimes that threaten public health. Fight the Read more…

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Don’t miss the events during Fight the Fakes Week

Register for the events taking place during Fight the Fakes Week! Monday 6 December REGISTER USP and Fight the Fakes Alliance are convening a panel discussion focusing prevention, detection and response framework to substandard and falsified medicines.  With the participation of the relevant stakeholders, the meeting aims to discuss the strategies and interventions and gain insights on the problem from different regions around the world. More info here. Wednesday 8 December  Meet & Greet – Read more…

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PRESS RELEASE: Step up action to tackle substandard and falsified medical products. Urgent call for “fake busters”

Step up action to tackle substandard and falsified medical products. Urgent call for “fake busters” Press Release Geneva, 25 November 2021 Fight the Fakes Alliance is holding its 4th annual public campaign under the slogan “Health is not a hoax – Fight the Fakes” from December 6 to 12. We are urging the general public, doctors, nurses, researchers, wholesalers, pharmaceutical executives, medical and pharmacy students, as well as the international community to speak out against Read more…

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French communications toolkit – Fight the Fakes Week 2021

Aidez-nous à faire passer le message ! Partagez le contenu de cette page sur vos réseaux sociaux. C’est très simple, il suffit de cliquer sur les images pour les télécharger et de copier le texte que nous proposons. Nous rejoignons la communauté @FightTheFakes pour la 4ème édition de la #FTFweek afin de sensibiliser aux dangers des médicaments de qualité inférieure et aux #fakemeds ! Agissons ensemble car la santé n’est pas un canular #HealthIsNoHoax ! Read more…

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Spanish communications toolkit – Fight the Fakes Week 2021

¡Ayúdanos a difundir el mensaje! ¡Difunde los contenidos de esta página en tus redes sociales! Es muy fácil, sólo tienes que pinchar en las imágenes para descargarlas y copiar el texto que te proponemos. Nos unimos a la comunidad de @FightTheFakes para la 4ª edición de la Semana Contra los Medicamentos Falsos #FTFweek con el fin de crear conciencia sobre los peligros de los medicamentos subestándar. #fakemeds.   ¡Únete, te necesitamos! https://fightthefakes.org/week/4th-fight-the-fakes-week-6-12-december-2021/  🙅🏽‍♀️🙅🏽‍♂️No compres medicamentos a Read more…

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Fight the Fakes Alliance featured in the BMJ!

Kanchan Srivastava recently mentioned Fight the Fakes Alliance’s commitment to tackle the proliferation of fake and substandard medicines in the BMJ!  In this article, key experts share their views on what has enabled a global surge in black market sales of substandard and falsified medicines:    – Oksana Pyzik, leading the UCL Lead Global Citizenship Programme Outbreak of Infectious Disease and Founder of the UCL Fight The Fakes Academic Chapter.   – Alok Dhawan, Director of the Centre Read more…

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