The Fight the Fakes Alliance is delighted to have Wilson Chandomba, CSCL – Founder and Managing Consultant CMCOMMS Supply Chain Quality Assurance, as a Fight the Fakes Alliance Goodwill Ambassador. A certified health and humanitarian supply chain leader and advocate for end-to-end supply chain integrity, Wilson brings a wealth of Read more…
Geneva, Switzerland | February 26, 2025 The Fight the Fakes Alliance is excited to extend the warmest welcome to Fondation Pierre Fabre and the Italian Center for Coordinated Research (CRC) in Precision Medicine and Chronic Inflammation at the University of Milan as our newest members, as of January 2025. These Read more…
This statement was delivered by the World Heart Federation on behalf of Fight the Fakes Alliance at the 156th session of the WHO Executive Board: Honourable Chair, Distinguished Delegates, The World Heart Federation, supported by the Fight the Fakes Alliance, welcomes the independent evaluation of the Member State Mechanism on Read more…
September 24, 2024, Location – Fight the Fakes Alliance is excited to announce and welcome the Université la Source Conakry as the newest member of the Alliance. Given that one-fifth of medicines in Africa are potentially substandard or falsified (SFs), and that SFs in sub-Saharan kill almost 500,000 people each Read more…
This report highlights the urgent need for enhanced education, collaboration, and country-based initiatives to curb the growing global crisis. Geneva, Switzerland July 29th, 2024 – Fight the Fakes Alliance (FTFA) has released its white paper on Identifying Critical Enablers in the Prevention, Detection, and Response to Substandard and Falsified Medicines . Read more…
The introduction and popularity of new, highly-effective weight loss drugs, which has the same active ingredient (semaglutide) as a diabetes medicine, and available by prescription, have created a situation where market demand greatly exceeds product availability. Counterfeiters and other unscrupulous players are exploiting this gap to push falsified and substandard Read more…
We support and amplify the statements delivered by our members World Heart Federation and US Pharmacopeia and other stakeholders such as Médecins Sans Frontières and International Pharmaceutical Federation on agenda item 13.3 Substandard and falsified medical products (WHA76/13.3) at the 76th World Health Assembly of the World Health Organisation. As Read more…
The Fight the Fakes Alliance is pleased to welcome Adesanya Oluwaseun Adedotun as its first Goodwill Ambassador. Adedotun, the Assistant Director of the Drug Division in the Post Market Surveillance DGO at National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) of Nigeria, and World Health Organization (WHO) Focal Read more…
The head of WHO, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has said time and time again, global access to safe and quality medical products is a cornerstone of achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC). The link between achieving Universal Health Coverage and substandard and falsified (SF) medical products must be made clear. Allowing Read more…
If we had the opportunity to deliver a statement at the 152nd WHO Executive Board meeting, this is what we would have said in relation to Agenda item 5. Universal Health Coverage Substandard & Falsified Medicines block the way to Universal Health Coverage Reaching the shared and noble objectives to Read more…