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 Read more…
Fight the Fakes’ member U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) has recently launched a number of valuable materials to help identify substandard and falsified COVID-19 vaccines, which are free to the public. Substandard and falsified vaccines erode the public’s trust in vaccines and hinder our ability to control the COVID-19 pandemic. To help Read more…
The International Coalition of Medicines Regulatory Authorities (ICMRA) has development of a policy paper on national traceability systems for medical products with a strong focus on interoperability. Interoperability is key in the fight against fake medicines as it enables common technical denominators that facilitate the exchange and use the information on medicines Read more…
In face of the current Covid-19 pandemic, the Infectious Diseases Data Observatory (IDDO) has been developing several Medical Product Quality Reports about substandard and falsified (SF) COVID-19 medical products and COVID-19 vaccines, which include data from scientific literature, public alerts and warnings, and lay press from across the world. These monthly Read more…
The World Health Organisation is celebrating the 74th World Health Assembly this week (24 May – 1 June) which will have a decisive impact on the global health agenda ahead of us. Fight The Fakes used this important occasion to put the spotlight on the dangers that the proliferation of Read more…
Fight The Fakes Alliances’ member U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) recently hosted an online workshop on ‘Combatting Substandard and Falsified medicines during COVID-19 pandemic’. In this workshop, composed of 6 sessions, USP experts and other relevant actors gave an overview of the work they carried out to detect substandard and falsified medicines during current Read more…
Fake COVID-19 vaccines erode public trust in much-needed jabs and encourage vaccine hesitancy. No one likes to be scammed — but fake medication takes that uneasy feeling to another level because counterfeit medicines can kill or cause terrible complications and disabilities. That is why basically every country in the world Read more…
Fight The Fakes’ member U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) has recently published a suite of resources and tools to detect substandard and falsified COVID-19 treatments. The supply and demand imbalances caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has created a surge in substandard and falsified treatments and these resources aim to assist manufacturers, regulators, and quality control laboratories in helping Read more…
Malaria is a disease that can be prevented and treated…when using the right medicines!
According to the Medicine Quality Research Group, Centre of Tropical Medicine & Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine and the University of Oxford’s Medical Product Quality Report – COVID-19 vaccine issues from March 2021, between 12th March 2020 and 5 th March 2021 76 reports of diverted or SF COVID-19 vaccines from Read more…