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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