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…
Image by the Medicine Maker Shabbir Imber Safdar, Partnership for Safe Medicines Executive Director and Fight the Fakes board member, was recently featured in the Medicine Maker online magazine. In his article “Drug Supply Chain Security Act” Shabbir discussed how the US drug supply chain is not immune to falsified medicines Read more…
Fight the Fakes Alliance calls upon national governments to ensure that the 7th replenishment of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, planned for September 2022, is met in full to help avoid the entry of substandard and falsified medicines in low-and middle income countries. The replenishment of Read more…
How misinformation has fuelled the sale of COVID-19 substandard and falsified medical products. A UCL Fight The Fakes lead study written by Oksana Pyzik, Dr. John Hertig, Hoda Kanso, Anika Chamba and Sofia Khan shows there is a strong link between fake news and fake medicines. As waves of COVID-19 continue to threaten public Read more…
Deloitte‘s report calls for international healthcare organizations to promote global standards such as, Fight the Fakes member, GS1 DataMatrix barcode for product identification across the medical supply chain in order to ensure citizens around the world have a speedy, equal, and secure access to COVID-19 vaccines. The report, which follows another publication from Deloitte Read more…
A academic article published in February 2022 by Pierre Saliou, Quentin Duteil, Stanley A. Plotkin and Marc Gentilini discusses the recent but growing phenomenon of fake vaccines trafficking, which represents a severe threat to public health. Authors explain how during the COVID-19 pandemic, anti-COVID vaccines have been a prime target Read more…