Antimicrobial Resistance
WHO
- General information
- Codex ad hoc Intergovernmental Task Force of Antimicrobial Resistance
- List of Critically Important Antimicrobials
- WHO Advisory Group on Integrated Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance (AGISAR)
- Publications
- Meetings
Antimicrobial agents are essential drugs for human health and animal health. Antimicrobial resistance is a global public health issue that is impacted by both human and non-human antimicrobial usage. The continuing emergence, development and spread of pathogenic organisms that are resistant to antimicrobials are a cause of increasing concern. WHO's involvement in containment of antimicrobial resistance due to non-human antimicrobial usage dates back to the late 1990s.
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World Health Day 2011
Antimicrobial resistance: no action today, no cure tomorrow -
Policy briefs to combat antimicrobial resistance
Including Reduce use of antimicrobials in food-producing animals
Events
- The 4th Session of the Codex ad hoc Intergovernmental Task Force on Antimicrobial Resistance, 18-22 October 2010
- 2nd meeting of the WHO Advisory Group on Integrated Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance (WHO-AGISAR), 5-7 June 2010
- The 3rd Session of the Codex ad hoc Intergovernmental Task Force on Antimicrobial Resistance, 12-16 October 2009
- First Meeting of the WHO Advisory Group on Integrated Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance (AGISAR), 15-19 June 2009
- The 2nd session of the Codex ad hoc Intergovernmental Task Force on Antimicrobial Resistance, 20-24 October 2008
Selected links
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Tackling antibiotic resistance from a food safety perspective in Europe
WHO Office for Europe - 7 April 2011