Detecting and preventing the supply of illicit and falsified medicines online

该项目将开发和推出数据驱动的软件，以检测和防止在主流在线市场和电子商务网站上供应非法和伪造的医疗产品和个人防护用品。这将提高侦测/预防比率和对非法销售者的执法；确保更安全的公共和私人采购，保护公民和社区免受伤害。有组织的犯罪销售商迅速瞄准了人们对个人防护用品、检测工具包和药品的迫切需求，并通过提供非法、有害的“新冠肺炎”奇迹疗法来利用人们的恐惧。通过专注于预防和执法，我们将帮助减少非法贸易对全球2.2万亿美元的影响，非法贸易剥夺政府税收、损害公民健康并给公共服务带来压力。甚至在新冠肺炎非法供应激增之前，假药就被世卫组织和经合组织认定为最具危害性的非法贸易形式之一。Vistalworks之前曾发布过一个人工智能驱动的系统，以警告在线市场上非法在线卖家的威胁，并刚刚推出了Chrome浏览器扩展，以警告消费者在线购物时新冠肺炎的相关风险。

This project will develop and launch data-driven software to detect and prevent the supply of illicit and falsified medical products and PPE on mainstream online marketplaces and ecommerce websites.This increases detection/prevention rates and enforcement against illegal sellers; enables safer public and private procurement, and protects citizens and communities from harm.Organised criminal sellers have been quick to target the urgent need for PPE, testing kits and medicines, as well exploiting people's fears by offering illicit, harmful, Covid-19 "miracle" cures.By focusing on prevention and enforcement, we'll help reduce the $2.2trillion global impact of illicit trade, which deprives governments of tax revenues, harms citizens' health, and pressurises public services. Even before the Covid-19 explosion in illicit supply, fraudulent medicines were recognised by WHO and OECD as one of the most harmful forms of illicit trade.Vistalworks has previously released an AI-driven system to warn shoppers of threats from illicit online sellers in online marketplaces, and just launched a Chrome browser-extension to warn consumers of Covid-19 related risks as they shop online.