Urgent action necessary to safeguard drug treatments
World Health Day 2011: policy briefs
World Health Organization- http://bit.ly/hl6rFO
Policy Package to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance
"……Today, WHO is publishing a policy package that sets out the measures governments and their national partners need to combat drug resistance.
The policy steps recommended by WHO include:
· develop and implement a comprehensive, financed national plan
· strengthen surveillance and laboratory capacity
· ensure uninterrupted access to essential medicines of assured quality
· regulate and promote rational use of medicines
· enhance infection prevention and control
· foster innovation and research and development for new tools.
The discovery and use of antimicrobial drugs to treat diseases such as leprosy, tuberculosis, gonorrhea and syphilis changed the course of medical and human history. Now, those discoveries and the generations of drugs that followed them are at risk, as high levels of drug resistance threaten their effectiveness.
Drug resistance is a natural biological phenomenon, through which microorganisms acquire resistance to the drugs meant to kill them. With each new generation, the microorganism carrying the resistant gene becomes ever more dominant until the drug is completely ineffective. Inappropriate use of infection-fighting drugs (underuse, overuse or misuse) causes resistance to emerge faster…." [ Press release 6 April 2011 |
Policy Briefs:
· 2. Strengthen surveillance and laboratory capacity
· 3. Ensure uninterrupted access to essential medicines of assured quality
· Reduce use of antimicrobials in food-producing animals
· 5. Enhance infection prevention and control
PAHO/WHO
World Health Day Celebration
"Combat Drug Resistance: No Action Today, No cure tomorrow"
When: Thursday, April 7, 9.30 am to 1 pm. http://bit.ly/fWqcG4
Where: Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) HQs
Room B
Who: Welcoming Remarks (9:30 - 10:00)
· Video of Mirta Roses, Director, PAHO/WHO
· Jon Kim Andrus, Deputy Director, PAHO/WHO
· Anthony S. Fauci, Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH
· Claudia Palacios, News anchor, CNN
Round table:
Antimicrobial resistance, a hidden burden
(10:00 - 11:00)
Marcos Espinal, PAHO/WHO (Moderator)
· AMR Surveillance in Latin America Marcelo Galas, Ministry of
· Prevention of AMR dissemination in health care settings Orlando Urroz, Caja Costarricense del Seguro Social,
· Challenges for care and impact of AMR in health care costs Susan Foster,
· Role of the microbiology laboratories in the detection of AMR, ASM Joseph Campos, Children's
· Impact of HIV drug resistance on treatment schemes and costs Omar Sued, PAHO/WHO
Round Table:
Antimicrobial utilization in the Framework of a comprehensive strategy for the Rational Use of Medicines
(11:00 12:00)
José Luis Di Fabio (PAHO/WHO) and Perla M. de Buschiazzo (Argentina)
· Main achievements in the rational use of medicines and the implementation of a comprehensive strategy - James Fitzgerald, PAHO/WHO
· The National Strategic Plan of
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