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ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE AND INFECTION CONTROL
卷 12, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s13756-023-01301-4
关键词
Antimicrobial resistance; Antimicrobial stewardship; Conflict; Humanitarian health
Fragile and conflict-affected settings face a disproportionate burden of antimicrobial resistance due to weak health policies, disrupted medical supply chains, and lack of knowledge and awareness about antibiotic stewardship. This paper presents the experiences of Médecins Sans Frontières and the International Committee of the Red Cross in responding to antimicrobial resistance and provides practical recommendations for including antimicrobial stewardship in primary healthcare in conflict settings.
Fragile and conflict-affected settings bear a disproportionate burden of antimicrobial resistance, due to the compounding effects of weak health policies, disrupted medical supply chains, and lack of knowledge and awareness about antibiotic stewardship both among health care providers and health service users. Until now, humanitarian organizations intervening in these contexts have confronted the threat of complex multidrug resistant infections mainly in their surgical projects at the secondary and tertiary levels of care, but there has been limited focus on ensuring the implementation of adequate antimicrobial stewardship in primary health care, which is known to be setting where the highest proportion of antibiotics are prescribed. In this paper, we present the experience of two humanitarian organizations, M & eacute;decins sans Fronti & egrave;res and the International Committee of the Red Cross, in responding to antimicrobial resistance in their medical interventions, and we draw from their experience to formulate practical recommendations to include antimicrobial stewardship among the standards of primary health care service delivery in conflict settings. We believe that expanding the focus of humanitarian interventions in unstable and fragile contexts to include antimicrobial stewardship in primary care will strengthen the global response to antimicrobial resistance and will decrease its burden where it is posing the highest toll in terms of mortality.
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