Join the Fight the Fakes Week between 4 – 10 December 2023, to raise awareness about the dangers of substandard and falsified medicines. This year, our focus is on Africa, where approximately 1 in 10 medical products are substandard or falsified, leading to nearly 500,000 deaths annually in sub-Saharan Africa Read more…
Fight The Fakes Week flagship event: Keeping patients safe – securing the global medicines supply chain Homicide Charges for Those Making Harmful Fake Medicine? Article originally published on Health Policy Watch by Kerry Cullinan There should be much harsher penalties, including homicide charges, for those who intentionally falsify medicine and Read more…
JOIN OUR FLAGSHIP EVENT TO MARK FIGHT THE FAKES WEEK 2022 AND PATIENT SOLIDARITY DAY! InterContinental Geneva, Chem. du Petit-Saconnex 7-9, 1211 Genève, Switzerland 7 December 2022 Doors open at 9:30 Panel discussion 10:00 – 12:00 Patient Solidarity Day Celebratory Lunch 12:00 – 13:30 SPEAKERS REGISTER NOW! (limited places) The Read more…
This World Patient Safety Day, five international federations in official relations with the World Health Organization (WHO), will gather to demonstrate their continued commitment to the WHO Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021 and advocate for all governments, key stakeholders, and partners to deploy the patient safety as a priority Read more…
On Thursday, 20 October at 15:00-16:00 CET, Dr. Bahijja Raimi-Abraham, Founder and Academic Lead of King’s College London Fight the Fakes academic chapter, will participate at the World Alliance of Pituitary Organizations’ (WAPO) webinar. WAPO represents the voice of 41 patient advocacies around the globe who seek to empower and improve the Quality of Read more…
The 2022 GS1 Healthcare Conference is a 3-day conference (15-17 November, Paris & virtual) organized by GS1, one of the Fight the Fakes Alliance founding members. The event offers the opportunity to understand how global standards are being used across all parts of the healthcare supply chain and learn about Read more…
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, Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
The Medicrime Convention, 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 is celebrating its 10 year anniversary! 28 October 2021 marked the 10th Anniversary since the MEDICRIME Convention opening for signature Read more…