Government & Multilateral Initiatives

The fight against counterfeit medicines is a global one, involving many governmental and inter-governmental organizations. This page provides a guide to those organizations. If you would like to add an initiative to this page, please contact us.

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World Health Organization

• Counterfeit medicines. Fact Sheet No. 275. Updated February 2006.
• General Information on Counterfeit Medicines. Home page here.
• Guidelines for the development of measures to combat counterfeit medicines. Document WHO/EDM/QSM/99.1, online here.
• International Medical Products Anti-Counterfeiting Task Force (IMPACT)IMPACT stands for International Medical Products Anti-Counterfeiting Taskforce, an initiative of the World Health Organization and partners, including the Partnership for Safe Medicines. This page contains information relevant to the workings of the IMPACT Communications group: an events calendar, examples of successful educational materials, and a multimedia archive.You can submit materials to be considered for placement to information@safemedicines.org.

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Other Multilateral Initiatives

OECD: Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development

• OECD/WIPO meeting on measurement of counterfeiting and piracy. 17-18 October 2005

 

United States

Food and Drug Administration.

• FDA
  Combating Counterfeit Drugs Homepage
• June 2006 Task Force Report.
• February 2006 public workshop and vendor display on FDA Anti-Counterfeit Drug Initiative
• May 2005 Annual Update Plan
  to Fight Counterfeit Drugs
• February 2004 Report on Plan
  to Fight Counterfeit Drugs
• Public
  Service Ad against Counterfeits
• Counterfeit
  Drug Initiative Archive
• Counterfeit Alert Network

 

State of Florida

• State Supreme Court of Florida. FIRST INTERIM REPORT
  OF THE
  SEVENTEENTH STATEWIDE GRAND JURY.
• Florida State Legislature, Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability. Counterfeit and Diverted Drugs Threaten Public Health and Waste State Dollars. February 2003. Report No. 03-18.

 

United States Pharmacopeia, Monographs and Publications

• Mekong Countries Move on Fakes
• SEAM Conference (2003)
• Drug Quality Matrix and Poster
• Identification of Counterfeit and Substandard Fixed Drug Combination Tuberculosis Drugs to Prevent the Emergence of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis

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Fact Sheets

• Dangerous Doses Fact sheets from Katherine Eban, investigative journalist.
  • List of Counterfeits in Domestic Supply Chain in Last Five Years
  • Fact Sheet on Counterfeit Drugs in the U.S.
• Food and Drug Administration. Questions and Answers about Counterfeit Drugs.
• World Health Organization.Counterfeit Medicines – Fact sheet by the WHO, updated 2006.