AWaRe- A WHO Tool for Safer Use of Antibiotics

  • The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched a global campaign that urges countries to adopt its new online tool aimed at guiding policy-makers and health workers to use antibiotics safely and more effectively.

Aim of the Campaign

  • Aims to achieve a 60 per cent increase in use of antibiotics under the Access group
  • To use cheap, ‘narrow-spectrum’ drugs (that target a specific microorganism rather than several) to lower the risk of resistance.
  • To reduce the use of the antibiotics most at risk of resistance from the Watch and Reserve groups

Features of the Tool

‘AWaRe’, classifies antibiotics into three ....

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