Fake medicines: Fight the Fakes Alliance calls for action

Launched at a dinner-debate jointly organised by Merck Laboratories, the Cercle diplomatique de Genève and the Brazzaville Foundation, echoes the messages of Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who insists that global access to safe, quality medical products is the cornerstone of realisation universal health coverage (UHC). The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) emphasise quality as a central element of Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Thus, in target 3.8 of the SDGs, countries are called upon to establish UHC, including protection against financial risks and access to quality essential health services.

In this appeal, the Fight the Fakes Alliance advocates several actions in terms of prevention, detection and response, with the aim of controlling and minimising the influx of substandard and falsified medical products, and thus enabling everyone to have access to safe, quality medicines.

L’Alliance (alias “Fight the Fakes”) est une association multipartite incluant des partenaires de l’ensemble de la chaîne d’approvisionnement en médicaments, qui vise à sensibiliser et à influencer le changement en ce qui concerne les médicaments contrefaits et de qualité inférieure. La Fondation Brazzaville est membre du conseil exécutif depuis février 2022.