'Know Your Medicine' App

About 'Know Your Medicine' App: 

• It is part of NADA India’s broader mission to raise anti-doping awareness and education, equipping athletes with essential information to stay clean.
• The app allows users to easily verify whether a specific medicine or its ingredients contain any substances listed as prohibited by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).
• 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.
• Its unique features of image and audio search, 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.

National Anti-Doping Agency

• It was established by the Government of India, with the objective of acting as the independent Anti-Doping Organization for India having a vision of dope-free sports.
• It was set up as a registered society under the Societies Registration Act of 1860 in November 2005.
• The primary functions
  • To implement the Anti-Doping Code to achieve compliance by all sports organizations in the Country.
  • To coordinate a dope testing program through all participating stakeholders.
  • To promote anti-doping research and education to inculcate the value of dope free sports.
  • To adopt best practice standards and quality systems to enable effective implementation and continual improvement of the program.
• Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports

Q1: What is the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)?

World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) was established in 1999 as an international independent agency to lead a collaborative worldwide movement for doping-free sport. WADA’s governance and funding are based on an equal partnership between the sport movement and governments of the world.

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