'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 the integrity of sport, fostering a culture of fair and ethical sportsmanship.
• Its unique features of image and audio search, enable 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 1860on November 2005.
• The primary functions
  • To implement the Anti-Doping Code to achieve compliance by all sports organizations in the Country.
  • To coordinate 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