Fight the Fakes Alliance urges the international community to act now to prevent falsified and substandard medicines from reaching patients at risk via the global medicines supply chain. The 5th annual Fight the Fakes Week will take place under the slogan “Keeping patients safe by securing the global medicines supply chain” Read more…
JOIN OUR FLAGSHIP EVENT TO MARK FIGHT THE FAKES WEEK 2022 AND PATIENT SOLIDARITY DAY! InterContinental Geneva, Chem. du Petit-Saconnex 7-9, 1211 Genève, Switzerland 7 December 2022 Doors open at 9:30 Panel discussion 10:00 – 12:00 Patient Solidarity Day Celebratory Lunch 12:00 – 13:30 SPEAKERS REGISTER NOW! (limited places) The Read more…
Source: The Medicine Maker Géraldine Lissalde-Bonnet, GS1 Vice-President Healthcare, Fight The Fakes Alliance member, has been featured in The Medicine Maker online magazine with an opinion piece on the collective approach to fighting falsified medicine. In the article – Why Only a Collective Approach Can Beat Fake Medicine – Géraldine Read more…
According to the latest World Health Organization (WHO) updates[i] and reports from Gambian authorities, at least 66 young children in The Gambia may have died from acute kidney injuries caused by contaminated cough and cold syrups[ii]. Fight the Fakes Alliance condemns the circulation of toxic substandard medicines and calls on Read more…
This World Patient Safety Day, five international federations in official relations with the World Health Organization (WHO), will gather to demonstrate their continued commitment to the WHO Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021 and advocate for all governments, key stakeholders, and partners to deploy the patient safety as a priority Read more…
On the occasion of the upcoming Global Fund Replenishment drive, taking place in New York city during 19-21 September, Adam Aspinall, Fight the Fakes Alliance Chair wrote an opinion piece for the Health Policy Watch: “Fighting the Scourge of Fake Medicines: Global Fund Replenishment is Moment of Truth.” In it, Read more…
On Thursday, 20 October at 15:00-16:00 CET, Dr. Bahijja Raimi-Abraham, Founder and Academic Lead of King’s College London Fight the Fakes academic chapter, will participate at the World Alliance of Pituitary Organizations’ (WAPO) webinar. WAPO represents the voice of 41 patient advocacies around the globe who seek to empower and improve the Quality of Read more…
The 2022 GS1 Healthcare Conference is a 3-day conference (15-17 November, Paris & virtual) organized by GS1, one of the Fight the Fakes Alliance founding members. The event offers the opportunity to understand how global standards are being used across all parts of the healthcare supply chain and learn about Read more…
A recent comment written by Oksana Zirka Pyzik (UCL Fight the Fakes academic chapter founder and lead) published by nature reviews highlights how poor-quality or fraudulent medicines are causing extensive humanitarian and economic harm, particularly in Africa. Authors claim these products are a global problem that requires a coordinated cross-border response, including enhanced Read more…
