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WHO Global Strategy for Containment of Antimicrobial Resistance

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.

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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

Core Documents and Summary of Recommendations

• WHO Global Strategy for Containment of Antimicrobial Resistance
• WHO Global Strategy for Containment of Antimicrobial Resistance: Executive Summary
• WHO Global Strategy Recommendations
• Implementation Workshop on the WHO Global Strategy

Background literature reviews

• Antibiotic Resistance: Synthesis of Recommendations by Expert Policy Groups (1M) (2001)
• Interventions and Strategies to Improve the Use of Antimicrobials in Developing Countries (319K) (2001)
• Interventions Against Antimicrobial Resistance: A Review of the Literature and Exploration of Modelling Cost-effectiveness (<100K) (2001)
• Containing Antimicrobial Resistance: Review of the Literature and Report of a WHO Workshop on the Development of a Global Strategy for the Containment of Antimicrobial Resistance (<100K) (1999)

Pathogen-specific issues and recommendations

• Antimicrobial Resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae (526K) (2001)
• Antimicrobial Resistance in Shigellosis, Cholera and Campylobacteriosis (429K) (2001)
• Drug Resistance in Malaria (354K) (2001)
• Monitoring the Emergence of Antiretroviral Resistance (228K) (2001)
• Resistant Pneumococcal Infections (300K) (2001)

Healthcare-Associated Infections

• Infection Control Programmes to Contain Antimicrobial Resistance (361K) (2001)
• Prevention of Hospital-Acquired Infections. A Practical Guide, 2nd edition (405K) (2002)