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The plan will guide the country’s efforts in the prevention, slow down, and control of the spread of resistant organisms while ensuring the continuous availability of safe, effective and quality-assured antimicrobials and their optimal use.

Regional guideline to harmonize monitoring and surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in aquaculture in Asia and the Pacific A number of countries in Asia still lack systematic and regular collection of high quality information on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in livestock and aquaculture. [...]

18 June 2020 - “We must limit the spread of antimicrobial resistance now and treat it as the emergency it is. Otherwise, a century of progress in health, economic and development gains can be jeopardized within a generation timeframe,” stated [...]

FAO, in collaboration with WHO and OIE has developed a new Technical Brief

The unnecessary use of broad-spectrum antibiotics can be reduced when human and animal health professionals work together with their patients, clients and communities toward this common objective. This was the conclusion drawn by a national workshop, jointly held by two [...]

Regional Tripartite and AU collaborates to celebrate World Antibiotic Awareness Week

How we use antimicrobial drugs, like antibiotics, matters. Overuse and misuse are driving antimicrobial resistance (AMR) – an increasingly serious threat to the global health of people, animals and the planet. AMR happens when microorganisms like bacteria and viruses adapt to [...]

Antimicrobials are a precious resource. They treat infections in people, animals and plants. In this way, they also help ensure continuity for agriculture production systems all around the world. Antimicrobials are intrinsically linked to agriculture-based livelihoods, food security and nutrition. However, [...]

Awareness of the urgent need to address the problem of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) assembled a wide range of experts and practitioners at a round table held at the Federation Council, the upper chamber of the Russian Parliament...

FAO has officially designated the Faculty of Veterinary Science at Thailand’s Chulalongkorn University as a Reference Centre for antimicrobial resistance (AMR), FAO’s Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific announced today. In the Asia-Pacific Region, this is the first formally designated [...]