Adopt Aware Handle Antibiotic With Care | Burning Issues

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The WHO has launched a global campaign.
It urges countries to adopt its new online tool aimed at guiding policy-makers and health workers to use antibiotics safely and more effectively.

AWaRe

It classifies antibiotics into three groups:
Access.
Watch
Reserve

Significance

AWaRe makes it easier for policy-makers, prescribers and health workersto select the right antibiotic at the right time, and to protect endangered antibiotics.

Antimicrobial Resistance

Antimicrobial resistanceis turning into an invisible pandemic
It is a global healthand development threatthat continues to escalate globally
It is estimated that more than 50% of antibiotics in many countries are used inappropriately

Concerns

Spread of resistant gram-negative bacteria.
Infections like pneumonia, bloodstream infections, woundor surgical site infections and meningitis.
lthough over 100 countries have put in place national plans to tackle antimicrobial resistance
Accessibility and affordabilityof medicines an expensive affair.

What is required?

With the emergence of infections that are untreatable by all classes of antibiotics, antimicrobial resistance has become “an invisible pandemic”.
In the absence of development of new drugs, “we must safeguard these precious last-line antibiotics to ensure we can still treat and prevent serious infections”.

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