The day Victoria Amponsah was diagnosed with malaria she also learned that she was two months pregnant. She left the hospital with a prescription for an anti-malarial drug and, like patients anywhere else in the world, went to a local pharmacy believing that the medicine she purchased would treat her Read more…
In our world today, fake commodities are the norm. Walking around the streets of Nairobi, Kenya, one can come across many counterfeit designer items going for less than two dollars. It does not just apply to global brands but local brands as well. Up until two years ago, I had Read more…
Sofia, a pharmacy student at UCL London and a member of UCL Fight the Fakes, has been working with the campaign since 2018 and uses her academic background to deeper understand the widespread issue of substandard and falsified medicines. My name is Sofia Khan and I am undertaking my MPharm Read more…
My parents had left Somalia before the start of the civil war, and they only had good memories of the place they had called home all their lives. This changed very quickly , as the civil war completely devastated Somalia, a country with a capital that was once hailed the Read more…
Adebayo (left), aged 21, with his friend Peter at the Centenary celebration of alma mater- King’s College Lagos I grew up in a relatively small town in Nigeria with my parents and sister. My mother worked as a banker in IT programming and my father was an automotive engineer – Read more…
So, OK, having back pain is awful… but read on to find out what happened to Maggie DiVita Crowley. Maggie was 34, a wife, daughter, sister, and aunt. She lived in Wellington, Florida, USA. Maggie stopped breathing and died after she took a pill to ease her back pain. Her Read more…
Background: When Fight the Fakes heard the great news of how the percentage of falsified anti-malarials had dropped from 31% in 2009 to 1.5-2% in 2018 in Ghana, we wanted to know more. USP Ghana country manager, Mr Kwasi Boateng tells how the work of many hands had led to Read more…
Deaths caused by falsified medicines containing dangerous and illegal substances are on an alarming rise in the United States. Fight the Fakes partner The Partnership for Safe Medicines is making great efforts to tackle this epidemic-like matter. On 7 June 2018, during the 2018 Interchange conference, they joined forces with Read more…
Miriam Haendler, student at the UCL School of Pharmacy, was the deserved winner of the photo contest held during the UCL Fight the Fakes & Commonwealth Pharmacists Association event on the Global Impact of Substandard and Falsified Medicines in London. Participants shared a photo to best capture the global health Read more…
As a child growing up in Cameroon, I watched family members die from various diseases due to a lack of access to adequate medical treatment. I witnessed first-hand, and heard many more stories, of street peddlers selling all kinds of drugs, be it counterfeit or not, to gullible customers who Read more…