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.
Top Resource: World Health Organization
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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. TBD
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