Nigeria Centre for Disease Control NCDC and Federal Ministry of Health has organised a walk to mark World Antibiotics Awareness Week WAAW.
The Director General of NCDC, Chikwe Ihekweazu, said that the walk was to raise awareness about the threat of antibiotics resistance and the importance of appropriate antibiotics prescription.
The awareness walk was carried out in partnership with Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development FMARD,
WAAW is marked yearly in November to increase global awareness of antibiotics resistance and to encourage best practices among stakeholders to avoid further spread of antibiotics resistance.
The annual event set aside by WHO is to create global awareness of antibiotics resistance toward promoting behavioural change and rational use of antibiotics.
The NCDC director general said that many reasons accounted for the increasing spread of Antimicrobial Resistance AMR.
