The Partnership for Safe Medicines Wins Communications Award for Consumer Safety Resources
The Partnership for Safe Medicines is pleased to announce that the organization has been honored with an Excellence Award for outstanding work in the area of nonprofit communications.
The Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts gave The Partnership for Safe Medicines the 2015 Communicator Award of Excellence in the category of nonprofit magazine publication. The Award of Excellence is the Communicator Awards’ highest honor, “given to those entrants whose ability to communicate positions them as the best in the field.”
The award is for the series of comic books depict the true-life misdeeds of counterfeit drug criminals in the United States and the impact their crimes have had on American patients. The stories detail the criminals who attempt to break the secure, closed drug supply chain of the US. The first issue details the crimes, arrests and convictions of a whole black market supply chain devoted to ripping off American cancer patients including doctors who purchase medication from suspect sources to increase profits, mass pill counterfeiters and the grey market suppliers who connect the greedy medical professionals with pill counterfeiters. The second issue focuses on two large scale counterfeit drug entrepreneurs who used international connections to bring fake medications, including more counterfeit cancer drugs containing no active ingredients, into the lives of American patients. The Partnership for Safe Medicines is honored to be recognized for outstanding communications. The series is available to download for free here.
Additionally, the Partnership for Safe Medicines was awarded three Distinction Awards for patient safety education materials. The Top 9 Men’s Health Risks infographic won Awards of Distinctions for a promotions poster and infographic content marketing. Additionally, the infographic Learn How to Decode a Fake Online Pharmacy was given an Award of Distinction for infographic content marketing.
All these materials are available for free on The Partnership for Safe Medicines’ website, www.safemedicines.org.