{"id":28010,"date":"2024-11-15T12:24:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T06:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=28010"},"modified":"2025-10-13T11:09:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T05:39:31","slug":"know-your-medicine-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/know-your-medicine-app\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Know Your Medicine&#8217; App"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About &#8216;Know Your Medicine&#8217; App:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is part of NADA India\u2019s broader mission to <strong>raise anti-doping awareness and education<\/strong>, equipping athletes with essential information to stay clean.<\/li>\n<li>The app allows <strong>users to easily verify whether<\/strong> a specific medicine or its ingredients contain any substances listed as <strong>prohibited by the World Anti-Doping Agency<\/strong> (WADA).<\/li>\n<li>By offering this quick and seamless verification, the KYM app helps athletes to stay informed and uphold integrity of sport, fostering a culture of fair and ethical sportsmanship.<\/li>\n<li>Its unique features of <strong>image and audio search,<\/strong> enables user to select their sport category and search specific sport related information making it convenient for the user to effortlessly access the desired information.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>National Anti-Doping Agency<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was established by the Government of India, with the objective of acting as the independent <strong>Anti-Doping Organization for India<\/strong> having a vision of dope-free sports.<\/li>\n<li>It was set up as a registered society under the <strong>Societies Registration Act of 1860<\/strong> in November 2005.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The primary functions<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>To <strong>implement the Anti-Doping Code<\/strong> to achieve compliance by all sports organizations in the Country.<\/li>\n<li>To <strong>coordinate a dope testing program<\/strong> through all participating stakeholders.<\/li>\n<li>To <strong>promote anti-doping research<\/strong> and education to inculcate the value of dope free sports.<\/li>\n<li>To <strong>adopt best practice standards<\/strong> and quality systems to enable effective implementation and continual improvement of the program.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nodal Ministry:<\/strong> Ministry of Youth Affairs &amp; Sports<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)?<\/h3>\n<p>World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) was established in 1999 as an international independent agency to lead a collaborative worldwide movement for doping-free sport. 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