We are proud to announce the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership as a new Partner of the Fight the Fakes Campaign! The RBM Partnership is a global framework to implement coordinated action against malaria, comprised of over 500 partners including national governments, development partners, the private sector, NGOs and foundations Read more…
We are proud to announce the Global Pharma Health Fund (GPHF) as a new Partner of the Fight the Fakes Campaign! GPHF is a charitable organisation that works within international development assistance to improve healthcare and detect counterfeit medicines using the GPHF-Minilab™. GPHF-Minilab™ is a mobile laboratory for rapid drug Read more…
We are proud to announce the Dutch Malaria Foundation as a new Partner of the Fight the Fakes Campaign! The Dutch Malaria Foundation is a non-for-profit that aims to control malaria worldwide in order to structurally improve health, reduce poverty and stimulate economic development. Africa and Asia are hit hardest Read more…
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Today the Executive Board of the World Health Organisation (WHO) discussed the issue of substandard/spurious/falsely labelled/falsified/counterfeit (SSFFC) medical products. Counterfeit medicines threaten health systems worldwide. Many countries stressed the need for enhanced regulatory capacity to be achieved, in particular, by fostering regulatory convergence. During her opening address on Monday 20 Read more…
Today the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) launches a campaign to raise public awareness about the dangers of counterfeit products. “Counterfeit: Don’t buy into organized crime” shines a light on the illicit trade that manufactures and distributes counterfeit goods and the widespread health, social and ethical consequences Read more…
The Japanese government will step up efforts to fight fake medicines entering the country via foreign websites in 2014. The country’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has been alerted to an increasing number of websites selling fake medication claiming to be based within Japan but operating oversees. The Ministry Read more…
Fight the Fakes Partner USP has announced their continued partnership with USAID, Promoting Quality Medicines (PQM), through September 2019. The PQM programme provides technical assistance to countries without national regulation of medicines to combat the availability of counterfeit drugs. This initiative promotes the introduction of new technologies, such as Pharmacheck, Read more…
I am an endocrinologist. This is a story reflecting the human suffering caused by illegal erectile dysfunction pills (“ED pills”). The young man lies there on the hospital bed. His vital signs are normal, he is still sleeping and has a feeding tube coming out from his nose. I Read more…
The government of Finland is stepping up action to prevent counterfeit medicines from entering the country’s drug supply chain. When importing into Finland from outside the European Economic Area (EEA), the amended Finnish Medicines Act requires ingredients intended to be used in medicines to hold a written authority statement stipulating Read more…