- Dr. E. Oyekan
Meds-on-a-Mission Blog: January 2020
Updated: Mar 15, 2020
AIMING to bring Healing . Health . Hope to Millions by Increasing AWARENESS of Fake Therapies & their Consequences, focusing on ADVOCACY and Partnerships to Address this Epidemic, while Supporting ACCESS to Effective and Affordable Medications.

January 2020 : Each issue highlights events involving the ongoing challenges associated with the epidemic of fake medications worldwide, the efforts being taken to combat this epidemic, and efforts to increase access to safe and effective medications.
I. AWARENESS: This month's issue showcases areas where there are challenges associated with taking fake, substandard, & counterfeit medications and the consequences
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AFRICA
Fake drugs: How bad is Africa’s counterfeit medicine problem?
Africa struggles to stem deadly flood of fake medicine
The Real Consequences of Fake Medicines
Africa struggles to stem deadly flood of fake medicine:
ASIA
Drug regulator flags 47 medicines for failing quality tests
Many Companies Produce Substandard Medicines
Jawahar Nagar - Factory manufacturing fake menstruation medicines busted with 3 detained
NORTH AMERICA
Tishomingo drug raid leads to three arrests
II. ADVOCACY: The following global advocacy activities and partnerships, addressing the fake / counterfeit medication crisis and medication challenges
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The global challenge of access to medicines
AFRICA
January Meeting in Togo to address Fake Medicines
Fake drugs kill people and fund terror. African leaders hope to do something about it.
LOME, Togo — The pills tend to come surreptitiously from China, India and Nigeria. They're packaged like cures for fever and rashes. They land on street corners — sometimes in plain view — and promise to ease suffering at a fraction of the cost. But fake drugs kill tens of thousands of people each year in a global counterfeit trade worth an estimated $200 billion, thwarting progress in the fight against malaria and other life-threatening diseases, experts say, while funding organized crime
NORTH AMERICA
Edible security tag has been developed to tackle fake drugs
III. ACCESS: Entities making a difference by finding ways to provide safe and effective medications to all
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WHO selects fake meds among top 10 health challenges of 2020s
Access to medicines—business as usual?
In this month's issue, Peter Rockers and colleagues report on the impact of one such initiative

MEDS ON A MISSION – We AIM to bring Healing . Health . Hope to Millions Through Increased AWARENESS of Fake Therapies & their Consequences, Continued Focus on ADVOCACY and Efforts to Address This Epidemic, and Identifying ACCESS opportunities to Effective and Affordable Medications. If you are aware of any efforts going on in the above areas, please forward that information to medsonamission@gmail.com