Poverty, Disease and Drugs in Regional Development

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Wilson O. Erhun

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 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. 

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Erhun, W. O. (2023). Poverty, Disease and Drugs in Regional Development. West African Journal of Pharmacy, 23(2), 3-13. https://doi.org/10.60787/wapcp-23-2-1
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Wilson O. Erhun, Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Administration Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife.

Being keynote address presented at the 24th Annual General Meeting and Scientific
Symposium of the West Africa Post graduate College of Pharmacists , Held in Banjul, The Gambia

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Erhun, W. O. (2023). Poverty, Disease and Drugs in Regional Development. West African Journal of Pharmacy, 23(2), 3-13. https://doi.org/10.60787/wapcp-23-2-1

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