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Epilepsy is a very common health condition defined as a neurological disease and characterized mainly by the recurrence of epileptic seizures [1]. There are 50 million persons with epilepsy (PwE) in the world [2], of these 70% can control seizures using medicines [3]. However, 75% of PwE who live in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and more than half who live in Latin America and the Caribbean do not have access to appropriate treatments [3, 4]. Furthermore, epilepsy is responsible for 0.5% of the global burden of disease and 80% of this burden is observed in LMICs, where the mortality rates are also higher when compared with high-income countries (HICs) [2,4].