Counterfeits in medicine

1. “Are They Real!?”
Counterfeits Can Kill!

2. “The Emerging Crime of the 21st
Century”
Counterfeit
Drugs!!

3. WHATS REAL AND WHATS NOT?
Can you really tell?

4. WHATS REAL AND WHATS NOT?
Can you really tell?

5. Counterfeit Medicine:
A medicine that is
deliberately and
fraudulently mislabeled with
respect to identity and
source.

6. Counterfeit Products May
Include Products With:
 The correct ingredients,
 Wrong ingredients,
 Without active ingredients,
 With incorrect quantity of active
ingredient or
 With fake packaging

7. Counterfeit medicines can harm
and kill
 The regular use of substandard or
counterfeit medicines can lead to
therapeutic failure or drug
resistance. In some cases, it can
lead to death.
 Veronica Diaz was a healthy 22-
year old woman, living in Viedma,
Argentina, who had mild anaemia
and was given injections of an iron-
based preparation. In December

8.  Counterfeit drugs generated an
estimated $75 billion in revenue in
2012, according to the National
Association of Boards of Pharmacy.
Unlike fake sunglasses, fake drugs
can kill their purchasers. Each year
upwards of 100,000 people around
the world may die from substandard
and counterfeit medications,
according to a recent estimate by
Amir Attaran of the University of

9. FACTS AND FIGURES

10.  WHO survey revealed that 51% of
counterfeit cases had no active
ingredient
 25% of medicines used in
developing countries are
counterfeit or substandard
 Counterfeit medicines generate
$32 billion a year in sales for
Drug Dealers

11.  Counterfeit drugs in
developing countries are
generally life saving and not
lifestyle drugs, such as
malaria, TB and HIV/AIDS
 WHO figures suggest that
developing countries account
for 60% of all reported cases
of counterfeit and

12. THE CONSEQUENCES
 Treatment Failures,
 Erosion of public confidence in health
care,
 Prolonged illness,
 Unexpected and Dangerous side effects,
 Antimicrobial resistance
 Economic Hardship on Authorized and
Ethical Distributors
 Negative Effect on the countries
Economy
 DEATH!