On the occasion of World Patient Safety Day 2021, Kawaldip Sehmi, the CEO of Fight the Fakes member the International Alliance of Patients’ Organizations‘ (IAPO), talked about the dramatic situation of pregnant women and mothers in low- and middle-income countries due to substandard and falsified medicines with Health Policy Watch. Iconic Read more…
On the 29th of September, which officially marks World Heart Day, Fight the Fakes Alliance’s member the World Heart Federation will be launching their World Heart Day campaign, this year asking the world to “Use Heart to Connect“. The healthcare crisis we’ve all been living through has highlighted an urgent need Read more…
On 17 September join us in raising awareness about patient safety and how to keep them protected from substandard and falsified medicines! This year is the third World Patient Safety Day! This important awareness raising date was established during the 72nd World Health Assembly in May 2019, following the adoption of Read more…
In 2020 the UN launched an online campaign to commemorate the United Nation’s (UN) 75th anniversary, asking the public to fill out a survey in which they should express their dreams for the world and changes they would like to see in years to come. In line with this theme, Read more…
Fight the Fakes’ member U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) has recently launched a number of valuable materials to help identify substandard and falsified COVID-19 vaccines, which are free to the public. Substandard and falsified vaccines erode the public’s trust in vaccines and hinder our ability to control the COVID-19 pandemic. To help Read more…
The International Coalition of Medicines Regulatory Authorities (ICMRA) has development of a policy paper on national traceability systems for medical products with a strong focus on interoperability. Interoperability is key in the fight against fake medicines as it enables common technical denominators that facilitate the exchange and use the information on medicines Read more…
In face of the current Covid-19 pandemic, the Infectious Diseases Data Observatory (IDDO) has been developing several Medical Product Quality Reports about substandard and falsified (SF) COVID-19 medical products and COVID-19 vaccines, which include data from scientific literature, public alerts and warnings, and lay press from across the world. These monthly Read more…
The World Health Organisation is celebrating the 74th World Health Assembly this week (24 May – 1 June) which will have a decisive impact on the global health agenda ahead of us. Fight The Fakes used this important occasion to put the spotlight on the dangers that the proliferation of Read more…
Fight The Fakes Alliances’ member U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) recently hosted an online workshop on ‘Combatting Substandard and Falsified medicines during COVID-19 pandemic’. In this workshop, composed of 6 sessions, USP experts and other relevant actors gave an overview of the work they carried out to detect substandard and falsified medicines during current Read more…
Fake COVID-19 vaccines erode public trust in much-needed jabs and encourage vaccine hesitancy. No one likes to be scammed — but fake medication takes that uneasy feeling to another level because counterfeit medicines can kill or cause terrible complications and disabilities. That is why basically every country in the world Read more…