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Counterfeit Medicines
Bernard FRAHI
Sanofi-aventis’ commitment
against counterfeit medicines
• As leading healthcare company in the world sanofi
aventis (SA) responsibility is to deliver innovative, safe
and effective solution to the potential 6.8bn people in
need.
• Present in 110 countries, world leader of vaccines that
help prevent illness and improve global public health.
• Committed to ensuring the widest access to our
medicines but importantly that people receive the
medicines they should.
• Counterfeiting is huge business across many industries,
with exploitation of manufacturing principles, disgraceful
job conditions and of course power of the crime
lords. In the case of counterfeit medicines - goes way
beyond this – there is a real danger to patients’ lives -
Counterfeit medicines can kill.
• This is the reason, we fight counterfeiting extensively
and why we are proud to join efforts of political leaders
and those tasked on the ground to fight - enforcement
officers, customs officers and healthcare professionals
• Patients are at the centre of what we do and besides
the moral feeling of duty, we need to assure the safety
of our medicines, security for patients and preserve
the confidence in our treatments to ensure compliance
and return to health.
• There is also the economical aspect - Eradicating
counterfeit will allow for greater funds to re-invest in
innovation for new solutions.
Proliferation and extent
of problem
• Traffic of medicines brings more money in than
(recreational) drugs. A huge threat to public health
dating back to 1800s - US accused UK of counterfeiting
quinine for use in malaria medications to sabotage their
war against Mexico!
• Annual profit equivalent to $75 bn, and it is estimated
that investing $1,000 lead to a profit of $20,000 for
heroin trafficking and up to $400,000 for counterfeit
medicines.
• No country is exempt from the proliferation of counterfeit
(US, Europe etc) but it’s the poorest countries
where the most exposed. Estimated that 10 % of
medicines are counterfeit with figures reaching 50 % in
some countries where lack of financial, technical and
other resources make it difficult to protect the drug
supply chains. What does this mean?
• It’s not just that these are dangerous because they have
too much medicine but often counterfeit has no
medicine within them at all.
• SA treats approx 2bn people a day. Are 200mn of these
possibly getting dangerous or ineffective medications?
All medicines/devices are concerned. Imagine one of
your sick family receiving a fake drug for a life-threatening
disease?
• Recent reports have estimated that up to 60 % of prescription
medicines bought on internet are counterfeit
• Recent random study in Laos found 88 % anti-malarials
fake… (total malaria cases 19000 over 4000 in
children