It is undeniable that fake medicines are a growing threat to public health. This February, customs in Le Havre seized 2.4 million doses of counterfeit medicines disguised as tea. In 2012 Swiss companies were implicated in the distribution of counterfeit versions of the cancer drug Avastin. The struggle to prevent Read more…
I am Embele Patience Fominyen, Station Manager of Radio Health International for the past 4 years. I have always loved social work and had a perfect opportunity to blend this with communication, which I studied at university. Health themed radio is a new concept in Central Africa where there is Read more…
Today, on World Malaria Day, the Fight the Fakes campaign commends the global health community for progress made in the control and elimination of malaria with a ringing Thunderclap! To join in our efforts to raise awareness of this issue, please support our World Malaria Day Thunderclap message: “Huge progress has been Read more…
We are proud to announce Sproxil as a new Partner of the Fight the Fakes campaign! Every year, over 700,000 people die from fake tuberculosis and anti-malaria drugs alone. Fake medicines are a dangerous and deadly industry that particularly rampant in emerging markets—where limited resources and high prevalence of disease Read more…
Last week concluded the 2014 Global Forum on Access to Safe Medicines attended by Fight the Fakes partners International Council of Nurses (ICN), Institute of Research Against Counterfeit Medicines (IRACM), International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA) and the Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV). The Global Forum allowed for Read more…
The Center for Pharmaceutical Advancement and Training (CePAT) in Ghana has just received a Minilab to aid in detection fake medicines. Minilab checks medicines for the correct active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) and equips regulatory authorities with a portable and low-cost means of protecting patients from counterfeit drugs. Using Minilab, CePAT Read more…
The Council of Europe’s European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines (EDQM) has launched a database to collate incidents of drug counterfeiting across Europe. Titled, Know-X, the database aims to improve cross-border collaboration in the fight against fake medicines and shall also record the types of pharmaceutical products that are Read more…
My name is Vittoria Grasso and I am a Venezuelan student studying economics at Bocconi University in Milan. This year I got the opportunity to be the Model UN (MUN) Director for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime at the National High School Model United Nations (NHSMUN). I Read more…
To view the full ‘Nurses join worldwide effort to protect patients from fake medicines‘ article in the International Nursing Review, click here.
Want to do more to support the fight against fake malaria medicines? Sign the Juma Petition! Our partner, the Dutch Malaria Foundation, is calling on the intervention of national governments to tackle fake medicines at the source and keep them out of the legitimate medicine supply chain and out of Read more…