Falsified medicines pose a serious health threat for individuals around the world, no matter the country, age or gender. With them come vast financial and socioeconomic costs that make fake medicines an undeniable roadblock in achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2030. But there are opportunities that patients, governments, NGOs Read more…
To mark the occasion of World Health Day, Howard Catton, CEO from our partner the International Council of Nurses (ICN) published an op-ed in Nigeria Health Watch to highlight the crucial role health care professionals, such as nurses, and digital health solutions play in the fight against falsified medicines. Particularly Read more…
Every year on the 7th of April the global health community is celebrating ‘World Health Day’. The awareness day was first created by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 1950 and is seen as an opportunity by the organization to draw attention to a subject of major importance in global health 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…
Fight the Fakes is thrilled to be named as one of the organisations addressing falsified medicines in a new review article in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene which was published on March 11. In the article, titled ‘Falsified and Substandard Drugs: Stopping the Pandemic’, doctors are describing Read more…
‘The Traffickers’ is a 2016 British-American 8-part investigative television series on Netflix about the illegal trafficking of goods – and one of their episodes is focusing on the global illegal trade of falsified medicine! The British journalist and TV host Nelufar Hedayat follows the trail of a global criminal network Read more…
Check out the Fight the Fakes statement! In light of the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) having entered into its operational phase on February 9 (read our previous FTF update here), the MEP José Inácio Faria (EPP, Portugal) in collaboration with the European Alliance for Access to Safe Medicines (EAASM) hosted Read more…
Our partner, the International Pharmaceutical Students’ Federation (IPSF) is hosting a series of online webinars from Tuesday to Friday, February 19-22, on the topic of substandard and #fakemeds! Over the course of four days, one webinar per day will take place with one key speaker each, among them speakers from Read more…
IPSF is lending its voice to over 350,000 pharmacy students and recent graduates in 90 countries worldwide and as members of Fight the Fakes campaign want to ‘raise awareness on the dangers of falsified medicines and empower people to act on this issue’. Further collaboration with WHO to drive forward the Read more…
