Please contact Scott Hall at smhall@uschamber.com or 202-463-5817.
Ashifi Gogo–Fighting the Menace of Counterfeit Drugs One SMS Message at a Time
Growing up in West Africa—where counterfeit medicines constitute between ten and thirty percent of the marketplace—the scourge of fake drugs in his native country left an impression on Ashifi Gogo. Tired of seeing people dying from counterfeit drugs that contained no active ingredients, or even from others that included toxic chemicals, Gogo started Sproxil, Inc., a company that verifies the authenticity of pharmaceuticals by employing user-friendly technologies to circumvent the counterfeiters. By using text messages, consumers provide labeling information to Sproxil, which in turn verifies the legitimacy of product—all in real time using technologies and processes the local population is familiar with. Read more….
Global Innovation Policy Center (GIPC) @globalIPcenter 2d
The actions at the WTO set a harmful precedent that won’t help achieve global vaccination and could undermine the ability to respond to the next global crisis. @pjkilbride and an expert panel explain. Tune in: https://t.co/9zmzMqwcSZ