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World Antibiotic Awareness Week is Celebrated between the 18th -24th of November each year and it was born out of the need to increase the awareness of global antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and to encourage best practices among the general public, health workers, farmers, animal health professionals and policy makers to avoid the further emergence and spread of drug-resistant infections.
In May 2015, a global action plan to tackle AMR was endorsed at the World Health Assembly, supported by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).
“The first objective of the plan is to improve awareness and understanding of antimicrobial resistance through effective communication, education and training”
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What are the objectives of WAAW?
- To make AMR a globally recognized issue with engagement of all sectors – human, animal, plant and environment, a ‘One Health approach’.
- To raise awareness of the need to protect antimicrobial efficacy through prudent and responsible use.
- To increase recognition of the roles that individuals, governments, civil society organizations and human, animal, environment and plant health as.
- well as agriculture professionals must all play in tackling antimicrobial resistance.
- To make AMR a globally recognized issue with engagement of all sectors – human, animal, plant and environment, a ‘One Health approach’.
- To raise awareness of the need to protect antimicrobial efficacy through prudent and responsible use.
- To increase recognition of the roles that individuals, governments, civil society organizations and human, animal, environment and plant health as.
- well as agriculture professionals must all play in tackling antimicrobial resistance.
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However, the overuse and misuse of antimicrobials have accelerated the development of antimicrobial resistance, as has a lack of clean water and sanitation and inadequate infection prevention and control. This makes infections harder to treat, which increases the risk of disease spread, severe illness and death.
World Antibiotic Awareness Week is Celebrated between the 18th -24th of November each year and it was born out of the need to increase the awareness of global antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and to encourage best practices among the general public, health workers, farmers, animal health professionals and policy makers to avoid the further emergence and spread of drug-resistant infections.
