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Disease specific drug resistance

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Many infectious diseases risk becoming uncontrollable and could derail the progress made towards reaching the targets of the health-related United Nations Millennium Development Goals set for 2015.

Read more about specific drug resistance from the list below.

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  • The evolving threat of antimicrobial resistance: Options for action
  • The pursuit of responsible use of medicines: Sharing and learning from country experiences
  • The world medicines situation 2011: Rational use of medicines

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  • Global action plan to control the spread and impact of antimicrobial resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae
  • WHO HIV drug resistance report 2012
  • Global tuberculosis report 2012
  • Global plan for artemisinin resistance containment
  • Laboratory identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing of bacterial pathogens

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