For Consumers
Health Fraud Task Force
The Task Forces are a network of AIDS Health Fraud Task Forces throughout the United States developed as a proactive approach to combat these fraudulent product/treatment promotions affecting people with HIV/AIDS and their partners, family, and friends. The network, sponsored by the US Food & Drug Administration, strives to promote awareness, and prevent fraud through education that empowers individuals. The Task Forces have developed hotlines, workshops, conferences, and advocacy sharing as an alert mechanism to new fraudulent product promotion. Media has been utilized to broaden awareness in the diverse communities served. Members of the Task Force Network include people living with HIV/AIDS, treatment advocates, community based organizations, health care practitioners, educators, federal and state government officials, and local health care departments.
Health Fraud Task Force Web Sites
Several states have their own health fraud task force, many of which already have a presence on the Internet. You may contact any of them, but we recommend you reach the one closest to you.
Dietary Supplements
Health Scams! Don't Take the Risk
- Information About Dietary Supplements from the FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
- # Adverse Event Reporting for Dietary Supplements -- Reporting Illness or Injury Associated With a Dietary Supplement to FDA
- National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, NIH, providing information on complementary and alternative medicine to practitioners and the public
More information
Health Scams! Don't Take the Risk, a brochure from FDA's Office of Women's Health