title: Travelling with medications and medical equipment across international borders.
abstract: The international traveller needs to plan ahead to ensure medicines are available and used as directed for optimal therapeutic outcome. The planning needs to take account of legal and customs requirements for travelling with medicines for personal use. The standard advice by travel health providers is that travellers should check with the country of destination for requirements when travelling into the country with medicines for personal use. This is akin to introducing a barrier to care for this category of travellers. Innovative method of care for this group of traveller is needed.
authors.affiliation: Discipline of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health University of Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia. Electronic address: moses.mutie@canberra.edu.au.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mutie
authors.affiliation: Discipline of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health University of Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Cooper
authors.affiliation: Discipline of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health University of Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kyle
authors.affiliation: Discipline of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health University of Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Naunton
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, NSW 2052, Australia.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Zwar
mesh_terms: D004864:Equipment and Supplies; D006801:Humans; D038622:Internationality; D007880:Legislation, Drug; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014195:Travel / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D057236:Travel Medicine
keywords: Chronic disease; Medical equipment; Medicines; Travellers