More and more reports of falsified COVID-19 medical products are emerging on a nearly daily basis from all around the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) also just issued a falsified medical product alert for falsified chloroquine products circulating in Cameroon, Niger and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The drug, Read more…
Fight the Fakes has issued an official statement to the ever-growing number of reports of falsified medicines, vaccines and cures for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). To date, there are no approved medial products to treat or cure COVID-19 and any advertisement of such products is deliberately fraudulent. Stay safe and Read more…
Fight the Fakes welcomes three new partners to speak out against the global health threat posed by substandard and falsified medicines 6 April 2020, Geneva/ Switzerland – Fight the Fakes (FTF) is delighted to announce that three new partners will join the campaign’s awareness raising efforts against the dangers of Read more…
Fight the Fakes official statement to COVID-19 and emerging reports of falsified treatments and rumours of cures Fight the Fakes, along with the entire global health community is deeply concerned by the rapid global spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) declaration of a pandemic Read more…
Our founding partner IFPMA published their new ‘Health in Africa’ infographic that showcases the work their members do to help achieve Health for All in Africa. Between 2013-2017, Africa accounted for 42 percent of substandard and falsified medicines globally. This shocking figure undermines efforts to reach the health-related SDG targets. 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…
From 2-8 December 2019, Fight the Fakes and partners celebrated the 2nd annual Fight the Fakes Week (FTF Week) and it was a great success! Under the dedicated theme ‘Be aware, speak up, fight the fakes’, the FTF Week saw high engagement from partner organisations and other organisations and individuals Read more…
In a new opinion piece in the New Times Rwanda, Oksana Pyzik, Senior Teaching Fellow, University College London (UCL) and founder of UCL Fight the Fakes, and Flandrie Habyarimana, R.Ph President of the Rwanda Community Pharmacists Union (RCPU) and Eastern & Southern Africa Regional Representative at the Commonwealth Pharmacists Association Read more…
Efforts to combat the spread of substandard and falsified medicines must be stepped up Falsified medicines are a growing global issue which can affect everyone and everywhere. Among the most frequently reported counterfeit medicines are antibiotics and antimalarials. Criminals are also faking treatments for diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, tuberculosis and 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…