The possibility for falsified medicines to access the market is determined by multiple factors, but appropriate legal tools – both to control and regulate the supply chain and to punish the suppliers – are the cornerstone of the fight against counterfeit drugs. Fight the Fakes partner, Partnership for Safe Medicines, Read more…
Some people, especially in the US and the EU, associate falsified medicines only with low and middle-income countries, thinking that there are very few chances that they could face this danger. However, it is a common mistake. Every US State has had a counterfeit drug incident since 2000, as highlights Read more…
Fake medicines are not just useless. They often contain ingredients that are harmful – in the best case – and deadly – in the worst. Fight the Fakes partner Partnership for Safe Medicines released a Brochure on real dangers of fake drugs. Some patients expose themselves to the danger of fake medicines in Read more…
Medicines sold online can present a threat to patients. It is therefore important to be informed about the risks of buying online and the consequences of taking fake medicine. In the best case, the latter ones do not have any effect; in the worst, the ingredients may be dangerous and Read more…
ASOP Global summarizes the results of a recent review of more than 11,000 websites commercializing medicine in the US, and 96% of them are found to be in conflict with the US law. It is urgent to raise awareness about the risk for drugs sold online to be counterfeit. In the factsheet Read more…
Watch the Chair of the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Wholesalers (IFPW), Steve Collis from AmerisourceBergen, giving testimony on the public health threat of fake medicines and the importance of a secure supply chain.
Drug counterfeiting has increased significantly in Latin America in recent years. This new Latin America perception study by Sanofi was conducted in December 2016 and is based on the responses of over 7,000 individuals from Argentina, Brazil, Guatemala, Ecuador, Peru, Mexico and Colombia. The purpose of the questions asked is to Read more…
It may seem like everyone is shopping online, but buying prescription medicines online has never been riskier! There are more than 35,000 online pharmacies at any given time, but only 1,400 of those sites are safe and legal. This means you can’t trust 96% of them! Read ASOP’s brochure on the dangers Read more…
Watch the President of the Commonwealth Pharmacists Association (CPA), Raymond Anderson, speak about NCDs and the role of Fight the Fakes campaign in his intervention at CPA’s side event at the World Health Assembly on the role of the next generation in addressing non-communicable diseases. The full transcript can be Read more…
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