Since our successful side event during the World Health Assembly in Geneva at the end of May, our campaign and the issue of falsified medicines has received great attention the media! First and foremost, a lengthy article in the Guardian ‘Fight the fakes: how to beat the $200bn medicine counterfeiters’ Read more…
A new infographic by our partners Partnership for Safe Medicines (PSM) and the Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies (ASOP Global) helps explain the deadly impact counterfeit medicines have, where they come from, and how they contribute to microbial resistance. Find the full infographic, ready to download here!
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…
Fight the Fakes together with our partner, University College London’s (UCL) Fight the Fakes chapter, just held the event ‘Digital Natives Fight Fake Medicines’ on the side lines of the 72nd World Health Assembly in Geneva – and it was a great success! Over 150 people from all parts of Read more…
Fight the Fakes together with our partner, the Fight the Fakes chapter of the University College London (UCL), just held the event ‘Digital Natives Fight Fake Medicines’ on the side lines of the 72nd World Health Assembly in Geneva – and it was a great success! Over 150 people from Read more…
Our successful side event ‘DIGITAL NATIVES FIGHT FAKE MEDICINES’ which took place on Monday, May 20, during the first day of this year’s World Health Assembly was highlighted in a recent article in Health Policy Watch. Launched in 2018, Health Policy Watch is a digital platform for professional, independent reporting Read more…
Adebayo Alonge – an avid advocate of raising awareness about the issue of falsified medicines and one of the key speakers of our event ‘Digital Natives Fight Fake Medicines’ which took place on Monday, 20th May, along the side lines of the World Health Assembly, is taking part in the Read more…
Fight the Fakes and the Fight the Fakes chapter of the University College London (UCL) are hosting the event ‘Digital Natives Fight Fake Medicines – How tech start-ups & youth are driving the development of innovative technologies in the fight against falsified medicines’ at the side-lines of the 72nd Read more…
To mark this year’s World Malaria Day, George Jagoe, the Executive Vice President for Access and Product Management of our partner Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV), published an opinion piece in the New Times Rwanda to address the growing burden of falsified antimalarials and its serious consequences for the global Read more…
April 25 marks World Malaria Day and Fight the Fakes is supporting the call to reignite the global movement towards malaria elimination! From 2000 until 2015 the global health community annually celebrated the successful progress in the reduction of malaria cases in almost every country worldwide. Yet since 2016 this Read more…