{"id":61617,"date":"2021-11-19T06:51:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T06:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=61617"},"modified":"2022-09-13T14:25:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T08:55:46","slug":"world-antimicrobial-awareness-week-18-24-november-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/world-antimicrobial-awareness-week-18-24-november-2\/","title":{"rendered":"World Antimicrobial Awareness Week: 18-24 November"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The&nbsp;<strong>World&nbsp;Health Organization<\/strong> annually hosts the <strong>World&nbsp;Antibiotic&nbsp;Awareness&nbsp;Week&nbsp;(WAAW),<\/strong> also known as&nbsp;<strong>World&nbsp;Antimicrobial&nbsp;Awareness&nbsp;Week<\/strong>. WAAW is celebrated every year from 18-24 November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Purpose:<\/strong> increase awareness of global antimicrobial resistance, encourage best practices among the general public, health workers and policymakers to avoid the further emergence and spread of drug-resistant infections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Theme 2021:<\/strong> <strong>The theme of WAAW is \u2018Spread&nbsp;Awareness, Stop Resistance.\u2019 <\/strong>While&nbsp;World&nbsp;Antimicrobial&nbsp;Awareness&nbsp;Week\u2019s primary tagline is \u2018Antimicrobials: Handle with Care.\u2019 The theme calls on One Health stakeholders, policymakers, health care providers, and the general public to be Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Awareness champions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been declared as one of the top 10 global health threats by the World Health Organization (WHO).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;World&nbsp;Health Organization annually hosts the World&nbsp;Antibiotic&nbsp;Awareness&nbsp;Week&nbsp;(WAAW), also known as&nbsp;World&nbsp;Antimicrobial&nbsp;Awareness&nbsp;Week. WAAW is celebrated every year from 18-24 November. Purpose: increase awareness of global antimicrobial resistance, encourage best practices among the general public, health workers and policymakers to avoid the further emergence and spread of drug-resistant infections. Theme 2021: The theme of WAAW is \u2018Spread&nbsp;Awareness, Stop Resistance.\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":61618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2238],"tags":[99,2350],"class_list":["post-61617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-november-2021","tag-days-events-current-affairs","tag-world-antimicrobial-awareness-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61617"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115648,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61617\/revisions\/115648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}