World Antibiotic Awareness Week

Every year, World Antibiotic Awareness Week (WAAW) is celebrated by governments, health facilities, schools, stakeholders and communities across the globe. Antibiotic Awareness Week was celebrated on 18 – 24 November 2019 . WAAW aims to increase awareness of global antibiotic resistance and to encourage best practices among the general public, health workers and policy makers to avoid the further emergence and spread of antibiotic resistance.

Objectives of WAAW

• To make antibiotic resistance a globally recognized health issue.
• To raise awareness of the need to preserve the power of antibiotics through appropriate use.
• To increase the recognition that individuals, health and agriculture professionals, and governments must all play a role in tackling antibiotic resistance.
• To encourage behaviour change and convey the message that simple actions can make a difference.

Recommended readings

• WORLD ANTIBIOTIC AWARENESS WEEK: PRESCRIPTION FOR ACTION FROM WHO
• Think Twice. Seek Advice: World Antibiotic Awareness Week, 13-19 November 2017
• ANTIBIOTICS: HANDLE WITH CARE – WORLD ANTIBIOTIC AWARENESS WEEK 2016 (14-20 NOVEMBER 2016)
• Lack of new antibiotics threatens global efforts to contain drug-resistant infections
• World Antibiotic Awareness Week: Prescription for action from WHO
• Adopt and implement high-impact interventions to secure the future of antibiotics and rollback the global AMR crisis
• Change Can’t Wait. Our Time with Antibiotics is Running Out! 
• Think Twice. Seek Advice: World Antibiotic Awareness Week, 13-19 November 2017
• National Antibiotic Treatment Guideline-2014
• WHO priority pathogens list for research and development (R&D) of new antibiotics
• WHO’s list of urgent global health challenges for the new decade
• World Antibiotic Awareness Week: Prescription for action from WHO
• Think Twice. Seek Advice: World Antibiotic Awareness Week, 13-19 November 2017