Government & Multilateral Initiatives

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.


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.

Other Multilateral Initiatives

OECD: Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development

 

United States

Food and Drug Administration.

 

State of Florida

 

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

Fact Sheets