{"id":125529,"date":"2022-11-18T13:11:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T07:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=125529"},"modified":"2022-11-18T13:11:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T07:41:51","slug":"world-antimicrobial-awareness-week-18-24-november-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/world-antimicrobial-awareness-week-18-24-november-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"World Antimicrobial Awareness Week: 18-24 November 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2022:<\/strong> Every year, from November 18 to November 24, there is World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW). \u00a0It\u2019s an international initiative to increase awareness of the growing problem of resistance to antibiotics and other antimicrobial medicines. The objective of the week is to raise awareness of global antimicrobial resistance, encouraging best practices among the general public, health workers and policy makers to avoid further emergence and spread of drug-resistant infections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/category\/daily-quiz\/daily-quiz-november-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">November 2022 Current Affairs Quiz<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2022: Theme<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Preventing Antimicrobial Resistance Together&#8221; is the theme of WAAW this year. &nbsp;World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW) is a global campaign that is celebrated annually to improve awareness and understanding of AMR and encourage best practices among the public, One Health stakeholders and policymakers, who all play a critical role in reducing the further emergence and spread of AMR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The World Health Organization (WHO) defines it this way:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAntibiotic resistance occurs when bacteria change in response to the use of these medicines. Bacteria, not humans or animals, become antibiotic-resistant.\u201dAntimicrobial resistance (AMR) develops when bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites adapt over time and stop responding to medications, making infections harder to treat and increasing the risk of disease transmission, life-threatening sickness, and death.As a result of drug resistance, antibiotics and other antimicrobial medicines become ineffective and infections become increasingly difficult or impossible to treat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>World Antimicrobial Awareness Week: History<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The World Health Organisation launched \u201cWorld Antibiotic Awareness Week\u201d in&nbsp;<strong>2015<\/strong>&nbsp;to raise global awareness and promote action to halt the emergence and spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The campaign was rebranded as \u201cWorld Antimicrobial Awareness Week\u201d in 2020. The&nbsp;<strong>World Health Organization (WHO)<\/strong>&nbsp;projects a sense of urgency around the global issue of antibiotic resistance \u2014 and with good reason. If you develop an illness or an infection that can\u2019t be treated in the traditional way with antibiotics, you can die.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2022: Every year, from November 18 to November 24, there is World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW). \u00a0It\u2019s an international initiative to increase awareness of the growing problem of resistance to antibiotics and other antimicrobial medicines. 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