Training Seminars on Safe Medicine

Substandard, spurious, falsely labeled, falsified and counterfeit medical products can result in treatment failure, causing adverse effects, health hazards and even leading to death. The purpose of this grant is to spread the safe medicine message further and faster in India by providing focused training workshops on this topic specifically for health care workers. The grant recipient will conduct a series of training workshops in a number of different hospitals and a number of different communities. The training will include information about spurious drugs, client counseling techniques, and safe medicine to health workers. Each audience will include doctors, nurses, counselors, pharmacists and any other health care workers who have direct contact with clients. The grant recipient will also invite journalists to the training sessions to ensure that they are widely covered by the press. Proposals should specify how many hospitals/communities will be reached, what topics will be included in the training workshops, and how the recipient intends to maximize press coverage.