WHO Global Strategy for Containment of Antimicrobial Resistance

Overview

In the late 1990s and 2000, WHO convened a series of consultative groups, expert workshops, and consensus meetings to assess the growing public health threat of antimicrobial resistance, to evaluate the impact of containment interventions, and to develop a series of recommendations for action. The culmination of this work was the publication in 2001 of the WHO Global Strategy for Containment of Antimicrobial Resistance and a series of supportive background materials and technical guidelines

The WHO Global Strategy identifies 68 prioritized recommendations, for implementation targeted the following groups:

• Patients and the general community
• Prescribers and dispensers
• Hospitals
• Antimicrobials use in food-producing animals
• National governments and health systems
• Industry and research group
• International organizations