Access to antibiotic medications is critical to achieving the Sustainable Development Goal for good health and well-being. However, non-prescribed and informal sources are implicated as the most common causes of inappropriate antibiotic access practices,
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We found that several factors influencing the implementation of the behavior change interventions were interconnected as shown in Fig.2. For example, insufficient laboratory capacity to provide data on AMR patterns (structural characteristics) hindered the development of context-specific guidelines on antib...
Among other things, these guidelines say that "[s]uppliers shall have systems in place to ensure the safe handling, movement, storage, recycling, reuse, or management of waste, air emissions and wastewater discharges." These principles should become an industry standard and be duly en- forced ...
In national level data from South-East Asia, 16–68% of E. coli isolates, and 34–81% of Klebsiella isolates were resistant to 3rd generation cephalosporins [49, 50]. This data emphasizes the urgency for antibiotic stewardship in LMIC, and the need to also develop new effective ...