World AMR Awareness Week
November 18 · Level 7 · #685 of 2238
This awareness week puts a shared challenge in the spotlight: medicines used to treat infections can lose their effectiveness. It encourages infection prevention and responsible use of antimicrobial medicines in human and animal health, helping protect treatments that people depend on.
How it is celebrated: health organizations share explainers, specialists give talks, and campaigners discuss how resistance develops. Doctors, veterinarians and environmental experts all contribute, because the issue crosses the boundaries between their fields.
It is the infection-causing microbes that become resistant, not the person taking the medicine. Saying that someone's body has become resistant to an antibiotic misses what is actually happening.