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Monday 16 November 2015 marks the launch of the first World Antibiotic Awareness Week. The purpose of this week is to raise awareness of best practice for using antibiotics to reduce the risks of bacteria becoming resistant to antibiotics and to prolong their effectiveness.
To mark this special week, the OIE is making publicly available a dedicated internet portal, along with new posters and infographics, to enable national authorities, veterinarians, breeders and animal owners to take a more effective role in counteracting the major threat to public health posed by antimicrobial resistance.
From today, the OIE is making a number of communication tools freely available, through its new web portal on antimicrobial resistance, to promote best practice for the use of antibiotics in animals. Aimed particularly at those involved in animal health and production, it presents the problems caused by antimicrobial resistance and describes the activities of the OIE and its partners in this area.
To encourage close cooperation between the human and animal health sectors on this topic, posters, available on the OIE portal, were designed in conjunction with WHO and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), under the framework of WHO’s ‘Handle Antibiotics with Care’ campaign.
A detailed infographics explains the essential elements required by each country to ensure the responsible and prudent use of antibiotics within its territory.
By adopting best practice when treating animals with antibiotics, principally through applying the intergovernmental standards of the OIE, we can, collectively, prolong their effectiveness and protect our future.
Monday November 16, 2015/ FAO.
http://www.oie.int/
