WHO World Health Day
Thursday, April 7th, 2011
“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. Antimicrobial resistance – the theme of World Health Day 2011, 7 April 2011 – and its global spread, threatens the continued effectiveness of many medicines used today to treat infectious diseases. 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.”
via WHO | World Health Day – 7 April 2011
