World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW) 2018

Each November since 2015, World Antibiotics Awareness Week (WAAW) aims to increase global awareness of antibiotic resistance and encourage best practices among the general public, healthcare workers and policy.   

In 2018, the primary campaign revolved around two main themes:   

1 - Think Twice. Seek Advice.  

2 - The Misuse of Antibiotics puts us all at risk.   

Additionally, in 2018 WHO HQ also employed a multi-day messaging campaign, which was largely social media driven, to give stakeholders freedom to shape their own WAAW campaigns, by aligning each day of the week with one of the five objectives of the Global Action Plan on AMR.   

To support policy makers, we maintained our global message, ‘Our time with antibiotics is running out. Change can’t wait’.