Useful resources

International organisations and NGOs

• WHO Essential Medicines and Pharmaceutical Policies
• WHO Prequalification Programme
• International Medical Products Anti-Counterfeiting Taskforce (IMPACT)
• International Conference of Drug Regulatory Authorities
• ReMeD-Réseau Médicaments et Développement
• Fondation Chirac 
• Medical Products Counterfeiting and Pharmaceutical Crime (MPCPC) Unit  of INTERPOL
• Permanent Forum on International Pharmaceutical CrimE
• Medicines Transparency Alliance
• Médecins Sans Frontières Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines
• Third World Network
• Council of Europe MEDICRIME Convention
• European Alliance for Access to Safe Medicines  
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
• Thai Pharmaceutical System Research & Development Foundation (PhaRed)
• USP Medicines Quality Database
• The Global Pharma Health Fund  (GPHF)
• IRACM Institute of Research Against Counterfeit Medicines

Medicine Regulatory Authorities and national bodies

• Ghana Food and Drugs Board
• Kenya Pharmacy and Poisons Board
• Nigeria National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control
• Thailand Food and Drug Administration
• Health Sciences Authority, Government of Singapore
• Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, UK Government
• US Food and Drug Administration
• Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, USA, Counterfeit and Substandard Antimalarial Drugs 

Academic/research initiatives

• ACT Consortium
• ACTwatch
• QUAMED, ITM, Antwerp
• Counterfeit Drug Forensic Investigation Network (CODFIN)
• Institut de Recherche sur l'Asie du Sud-Est Contemporaine
• Chatham House
• Africa Fighting Malaria
• The CONPHIRMER consortium
• ReAct

Pharmaceutical industry

• Securing Pharma
• Pharmaceutical Security Institute
• Reconnaissance International
• Sanofi
• Pfizer

Alert lists and systems

• WHO-WPRO Rapid Alert System for Counterfeit Medicines
• e-drug [at] healthnet [dot] org (E-drug e-drug [at] healthnet [dot] org)
• e-med [at] healthnet [dot] org (E-med e-med [at] healthnet [dot] org)
• e-farmacos [at] healthnet [dot] org (E-fármacos e-farmacos [at] healthnet [dot] org)
• Mpedigree
• PharmaSecure
• Safe Medicines
• Safe Medicines India  
• Sproxil
• Pharmabiz

Websites or newspapers with interest in medicine quality

• GhanaWeb
• Modern Ghana
• IC Publications in New African
• All Africa
• African News Agency
• Nigerian Tribune
• Daily Monitor
• The Ghanaian Times