International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP)
From the executive summary:
"Thoroughly understanding the global threat posed from SF medical products is important to better prevent them from reaching patients. Healthcare professionals are key in responding to them proportionately and consistently —quickly detecting SF medical products when they have penetrated supply chains and reporting them to authorities, as well as educating and advising patients who have been exposed to them.
"Although an accurate and reliable source of SF reports, healthcare professionals cite a variety of barriers to reporting, including but not limited to a lack of awareness, a lack of feedback, overcomplicated reporting systems, and even fear of being reprimanded by their superiors.7 As a result, the WHO proposed a solution with the production of a modular educational curriculum to improve reporting and intervening behaviours of frontline healthcare professionals, specifically pharmacists, in high-risk regions of the world like sub-Saharan Africa."
Reference: International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP). Curriculum for pharmacy students on substandard and falsified medicines: Curriculum guide and competency framework. The Hague: International Pharmaceutical Federation; 2021. Available at: https://www.fip.org/file/4917
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