August 1st to 10th this year saw our Partner, the International Pharmaceutical Students’ Federation’s, annual congress in Porto, Portugal. The congress is the biggest and the most important annual event for pharmacy students, and this year hosted more than 750 participants from all over the world. The busy agenda included Read more…
Our Partners ASOP, ASOP EU and CSIP have hosted a seminar on ‘Protecting Patients from Falsified Medicines Online’ in Brussels. Officials from the European Commission, the United States government, as well as key stakeholders from the US and EU healthcare and Internet commerce communities, patient groups, and other non-government organisations Read more…
Update: Dr. Thomas Egwang has launched a campaign, EquipmentAgainstFakes, to help raise funds for his lab’s purchasing of equipment for detecting fake medicines. Click here to see what you can do to help! My name is Dr. Thomas Egwang, and I am the Senior Scientist at Med Biotech Laboratories in Uganda. Read more…
My name is Marie Lamy and I am conducting a doctoral study at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. I am researching the institutional mechanisms to regulate and prevent the availability of fake medicines in the Greater Mekong Region of Southeast Asia, comprised of Myanmar, Thailand, Lao, Cambodia, Read more…
Bloomberg news reported yesterday that fake antibiotics are among the world’s most common fake medicines, and that this is feeding into the prevalence of global antimicrobial drug resistance. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), conducting a surveillance program on fake antibiotics in 80 countries around the world, drug resistance Read more…
This week, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued its first guidance under Title II of the Drug Quality and Security Act, the “Drug Supply Chain Security Act”. The FDA advises drug supply chain stakeholders, which includes wholesalers, regulatory officials, care-givers and patients, to make note of potential signs Read more…
Check out the article “Fight the Fakes Campaign Adds Bevy of New Partners” in Outsourcing Pharma here.
This article was originally published in The American Journal of Nursing. To view the article, click here. Fight the Fakes Benton, David Chief Executive Officer; Williamson, Lindsey Communications Officer, International Council of Nurses In February 2012, a cocktail of salt, starch, acetone, and a variety of other chemicals was delivered Read more…
To download the press release, click here. Fight the Fakes campaign gains momentum as eleven new partners join global movement Geneva, 6 June 2014 — Following the campaign’s six-month anniversary, Fight the Fakes is proud to announce eleven new partners, bringing the total number of member organizations to twenty-five. New Read more…
We are proud to announce Mobilium Global as a new partner of the Fight the Fakes campaign! Mobilium’s app “Smart Health Africa” provides mhealth solutions for African mobile subscribers in order to promote healthy behaviours. Fake medicines can account for over 30% of the drugs in circulation in some African Read more…