{"id":148591,"date":"2021-11-24T20:43:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T15:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=148591"},"modified":"2021-11-24T20:43:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T15:13:04","slug":"antimicrobial-awareness-week-2021-fao-launches-action-plan-2021-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/antimicrobial-awareness-week-2021-fao-launches-action-plan-2021-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2021: FAO launches action plan 2021\u20132025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u200b\u200b<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has launched its Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) 2021\u20132025.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>About Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) 2021\u20132025<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The FAO Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance 2021-2025 is the continuation of the first FAO Action Plan, which covered the period 2016-2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<h6><b>Key Objectives of the plan<\/b><\/h6>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The five key objectives of the plan are:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Increasing stakeholder awareness and engagement<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Strengthening surveillance and research<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enabling good practices<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Promoting responsible use of antimicrobials<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Strengthening governance and allocating resources sustainably<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h6><b>Key Features of the plan<\/b><\/h6>\n<p><b>Firstly, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">it takes a \u2018One Health\u2019 approach and outlines several possible improvements in agricultural practices to better control <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Antimicrobial Resistance(AMR)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from good nutrition for people and animals, vaccination, hygiene, sanitation and genetics among other areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Secondly,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> it calls for more AMR-related research and surveillance in the crop, aquaculture and environmental sectors. This is because antimicrobials discharged by humans and animals, as well as hospitals and slaughterhouses, can enter the environment and accelerate the emergence as well as the spread of resistant strains and genes.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are antimicrobials?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Antimicrobials \u2013 including antibiotics, antivirals, antifungals and antiparasitics \u2013 are medicines used to prevent and treat infections in humans, animals and plants.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is antimicrobial resistance?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites change over time and no longer respond to medicines making infections harder to treat and increasing the risk of disease spread, severe illness and death.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a result of drug resistance, antibiotics and other antimicrobial medicines become ineffective and infections become increasingly difficult or impossible to treat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201c<\/b><b>Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2021: FAO launches action plan 2021\u20132025<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>Down To Earth on 23rd Nov 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? \u200b\u200bThe Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has launched its Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) 2021\u20132025. About Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) 2021\u20132025 The FAO Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance 2021-2025 is the continuation of the first FAO Action Plan, which covered the period 2016-2020. 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