Objective: Awareness and educational programme are one of the solutions to reduce unregistered drugs usage. In Malaysia, an agency called Pharmaceutical Services Division (PSD) and Pharmacy Enforcement Division (PED) are highly active in yielding many awareness programmes throughout the country as well as in its website. The goal of this research was to explore the pharmacist views or perceptions on the current awareness and educational programme on registered drugs.Methods: These findings emerged from one-on-one semi-structured interview guided with sixteen pharmacists in Klang Valley who have represented the voice from the pharmacists throughout Malaysia.Results: Six themes identified: ‘Consumer utility', ‘low health literacy', ‘social and education influenced', ‘equitable access to information', ‘promotion' and ‘persistent'. These themes emphasise the current awareness to improve and provide the programme to everyone in Malaysia to get the same information regardless they're staying. Pharmacists also expressed their concern about the current consumer who only cares about their benefit such as fast effect; cheap and easy to get by ignoring the bad impact if they consume the unregistered products. The pharmacists also believed that the health literacy, the social and educational level also influenced the purchase behaviour amongst consumer.Conclusion: The findings indicate that the management of unregistered drugs needs to involve every organisation. Future research could develop a particular measure and score on awareness and knowledge amongst public on this issue. This test can be used as the indicator to evaluate the outcome of the future knowledge programmed.Keywords: Unregistered drugs, Awareness and educational programme, Pharmacist, Public, Perspective
