2019 WAAW: NCDC, WHO, Others Walk To Raise Awareness About AMR Threat - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 18, 2019
NigeriaCentre for Disease Control NCDC and Federal Ministry of Health has organised awalk to mark World Antibiotics Awareness Week WAAW.
TheDirector General of NCDC, Chikwe Ihekweazu, said that the walk was to raiseawareness about the threat of antibiotics resistance and the importance ofappropriate antibiotics prescription.
Theawareness walk was carried out in partnership with Federal Ministry ofAgriculture and Rural Development FMARD,
WAAWis marked yearly in November to increase global awareness of antibioticsresistance and to encourage best practices among stakeholders to avoid furtherspread of antibiotics resistance.
Theannual event set aside by WHO is to create global awareness of antibioticsresistance toward promoting behavioural change and rational use of antibiotics.
TheNCDC director general said that many reasons accounted for the increasingspread of Antimicrobial Resistance AMR.