Poverty, Disease and Drugs in Regional Development

It is indeed an honour and a great privilege to be given an opportunity to address such a select group of professional colleagues represented at this 24th Annual General Meeting and Scientific Symposium of the West African Post Graduate College of Pharmacists. In this presentation on poverty, disease and drugs in regional development I will start by describing the key words in the topic and then proceed to look at the interplay of these factors in the process of regional development through a concept I have tagged the tripod of underdevelopment and then end with the role of the pharmacist in regional development.