WHO and other health organizations are working together on helping spread awareness and the Review Team UK-Commissioned Review on Antimicrobial Resistance has some recommendations, such as:
- We need to use our antibiotics better and need to modernize the way they get prescribed
- We need to modernize the way we prescribe these drugs and come up with rapid diagnostics that help inform doctors to see if a patient needs an antibiotic or not, because it’s unacceptable to do it based on just symptoms
- We need new drugs and better public awareness because it’s shocking how little people know about this
For the first time last year, WHO held a global campaign about antibiotics:
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