How is Access To Medicines a Human Rights Issue? What is access to medicines? In 2015, the international community adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a set of 17 goals to be achieved by 2030. Goal 3—which committed to “ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages”—proposed a range of targets from addressing non-communicable diseases to substance abuse to environmental health. Imbedded in the fulfilment of Goal…