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Responding Effectively to the Production of and Trafficking in falsified medicineswas launched on January 12 in Dakar, Senegal. Some one hundred key players in the fight against trafficking of fake drugs attended the conference. On 13 January 2016, a 3-day training seminar hosted some 33 inspectors pharmacists: 20 from Dakar and 13 from other regions of Senegal; as well as hospital pharmacists and the Directorate teams Pharmacy and Medicines. The goal was to address the issue of strengthening of the monitoring of legal drug circuit to effectively reply to the manufacture and trafficking of falsified medicines.

REPT is a European project funded by the European Union to address the fight against falsified or counterfeit medicines. This ambitious project aims at providing support to the authorities involved in the fight against trafficking of fake medicines, including health agencies, judicial services, law enforcement services, and other regulatory services. It operates in five African countries: Jordan, Morocco, Ghana, Cameroon and Senegal.

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