The vision of Pharmacists without Borders is: Everyone's right to good drug treatment. We work for all people's right to good drug treatment with a focus on global issues and to have a positive impact in low-and middle-income countries. We strive to improve the access to medicines and promote rational use of medicines, to lift medicines-related issues on the global agenda as well as raising awareness and commitment, an develop competency for these complex challenges among pharmacists and other key stakeholders both in Sweden and globally.

There are several aspects to human rights and medicines. This seminar will introduce a few global challenges surrounding medicines: access and availability of medicines, antibiotics resistance and falsified and substandard medicines. These issues are all related to medicines and are detriments to health and thus present major challenges to existing and future health care systems around the world. In their complexity, they have come to play an important role in the matter of human rights and the right to have equal opportunity to live a life of good health and good quality globally.