In many low and middle income countries, one in ten medicines is counterfeit or significantly below quality standards, according to WHO studies.
The consequences are devastating: in the Sub Saharan regions of Africa alone, around 500,000 people die every year because they receive falsified or ineffective medicines.
But there is a solution that is simple, effective, and ready to deploy anywhere:
The GPHF Minilab® — a compact, mobile laboratory designed specifically to detect falsified medicines quickly and reliably. It works without external electricity and uses easy to learn physical and chemical techniques, including visual inspection, weight checks, disintegration tests, and thin layer chromatography (TLC).
What impresses me most:
📌 More than 1,000 Minilabs are already in operation across over 100 countries worldwide, used by health authorities, NGOs, and clinics in remote regions.
📌 Each unit includes nearly 120 reference substances, reagents, laboratory tools, and a comprehensive multilingual manual — allowing teams to start testing immediately.
📌 The Minilab helps detect medicines that contain no active ingredient, too little of it, or even harmful substitutes — a life saving difference.
Our mission:
We want to help raise awareness of this important tool. Wherever access to modern laboratory infrastructure is limited, the Minilab can play a decisive role — especially in regions with high rates of medicine falsification.
If you work with organizations aiming to improve medicine quality and patient safety — from local health authorities to international NGOs and clinics in high risk areas — let’s connect.
Together, we can protect patients and strengthen healthcare systems worldwide.
👉 We welcome every exchange, contact, or recommendation that helps expand the use of the Minilab where it is most needed.