This Year's World Health Day is focused on the intensifying threat of bacteria resistance which is developing against antimicrobial drugs, particularly against antibiotics.
In this era of medical breakthrough, where every now and than a new wonder drug comes to treat diseases which were considered fatal a few decades ago, or even a few years ago in the case of HIV/AIDS. WHO has launched a worldwide campaign for World Health Day 2011, to conserve these medicines for future generations.
Antimicrobial resistance is spreading globally and threatening usefulness of today’s several medicines’ which are in use to treat the diseases. At the same time, the risk of jeopardizing the significant progress being made against the major infectious killers.
Today’s World Health Day theme is Antimicrobial resistance and it’s spreading on the whole world. It is focused on the need for governments to implement the policies and practices to prevent and counter the emergence of highly resistant microorganisms. Drug resistance is also known as the resistance to infection, caused by microorganisms, antibiotics and other antimicrobial drugs, including the standard treatment, fail to respond to the long illness and death could result in greater risk.
Today’s World Health Day theme is Antimicrobial resistance and it’s spreading on the whole world. It is focused on the need for governments to implement the policies and practices to prevent and counter the emergence of highly resistant microorganisms. Drug resistance is also known as the resistance to infection, caused by microorganisms, antibiotics and other antimicrobial drugs, including the standard treatment, fail to respond to the long illness and death could result in greater risk.
Last century’s several drug breakthroughs could be lost because of the spreading of the antimicrobial resistance. Consequently, one day a lot of infectious diseases may become uncontrollable and could rapidly spread all over the world. That’s why WHO has planed to bring attention to the urgent need to fight drug resistance by intensify the actions to deal with the threat.
Unnecessarily popping antibiotics at random is resulting in antibiotic bacteria resistant to first line antibiotics are, forcing doctors to prescribe stronger, and more toxic and more expensive drugs to treat the disease. For example, the drugs needed to treat multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (TB), are 100 times more costly than regular drugs. To cop with the situation, over the counter sales of antibiotics must be stopped and the use of antibiotics as growth-promoters in livestock must be curtailed. To help this, the government, the medical fraternity, and the public have to lend a hand.
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