14-20 November: World Antibiotic Awareness Week
This year the World Antibiotic Awareness Week will held from 14-20 November 2016- a global initiative to improve understanding of the antimicrobial resistance problem and change the way antibiotics are used. Antibiotic resistance happens when bacteria change and become resistant to the antibiotics used to treat the infections they cause.
Antibiotic resistance is strongly associated with the misuse of antibiotics. This is compromising our ability to treat infectious diseases and undermining many advances in medicine. WHO designed a campaign aiming to increase awareness of global antibiotic resistance and to encourage best practices among the public and healthcare workers to avoid the further emergence and spread of antibiotic resistance.
