Verdensundhedsorganisationen WHO lancerer på World Health Day, d. 7. april 2011 en kampagne, der skal skærpe opmærksomheden og kampen imod resistente bakterier og vira, som udgør et voksende og mere farligt problem verden over.
Antimicrobial resistance is not a new problem but one that is becoming more dangerous.
For example, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis causes at least 150 000 deaths annually.
Urgent and consolidated efforts are needed to avoid regressing to the pre-antibiotic era.
On World Health Day 2011, WHO will introduce a six-point policy package to combat the spread of antimicrobial resistance.
We live in an era in which we depend on antibiotics, and other antimicrobial medicines to treat conditions that decades ago, or even a few years ago in the case of HIV/AIDS, would have proved fatal.
When antimicrobial resistance – also known as drug resistance – occurs, it renders these medicines ineffective. For World Health Day 2011, WHO will be calling for intensified global commitment to safeguard these medicines for future generations.
For World Health Day 2011, WHO will call on governments and stakeholders to implement the policies and practices needed to prevent and counter the emergence of highly resistant microorganisms.
