The recent World Health Assembly highlighted a major global health problem: that many medicines are becoming ineffective because their overuse or wrong use have enabled life-threatening microbes to become resistant to antibiotics and other drugs. Action to curb irrational drug use is now urgent, yet not much has been done until now.
THE wrong prescribing and use of medicines is contributing to increasing resistance by bacteria and viruses that cause infectious diseases to antimicrobial medicines such as antibiotics.
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