World Antimicrobial Awareness Week is 18^th-24^th November 2023.

World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week aims to increase awareness of global antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and to encourage best practices for using antimicrobials responsibly among the general public, health workers and policy makers, to avoid the further emergence and spread of drug-resistant infections.

Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites no longer respond to antimicrobial agents. As a result of drug resistance, antibiotics and other antimicrobial agents become ineffective and infections become difficult or impossible to treat, increasing the risk of disease spread, severe illness and death.

Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest threats facing us today. Only with your help, will we all be able to rise to the national and global challenge of fighting antimicrobial resistance

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