European Antibiotic Awareness Day (EAAD): any impact on antibiotic consumption and public awareness in Slovenia?

Fifth European Antibiotic Awareness Day on 18 November: joining forces to reduce antibiotic resistance.

Antibiotics are medicines that are beneficial for mankind and their use in treatment and prevention of bacterial diseases has greatly contributed to reducing the overall burden of such infections. However, already since antibiotics have been used in clinical practice, emergence and spread of antibiotic resistance has represented an obstacle for the effective treatment of infected patients. A gr...

European Antibiotic Awareness Day 2012: TARGET antibiotics through guidance, education, and tools.

European Antibiotic Awareness Day 2012: general practitioners encouraged to TARGET antibiotics through guidance, education and tools.

On 18 November 2012, the UK will once again support the annual European Antibiotic Awareness Day (EAAD). In particular, hospitals will be asked to promote the Start Smart-Then Focus guidance for hospitals launched in 2011, while the Royal College of General Practitioners will publish the TARGET Antibiotics toolkit on their web site. TARGET (Treat Antibiotics Responsibly, Guidance, Education, To...

18 November and beyond: observations on the EU Antibiotic Awareness Day.

Antibiotic resistance is among the greatest threats to public health. Public and political concerns have been important drivers of a multifaceted strategy to contain and control this problem. The key components include surveillance of resistant pathogens and more accurate measurement of prescribing practice, in addition to adherence to sound hygiene and infection control practices. With the cur...

European Antibiotic Awareness Day provides platform for campaigns on prudent use of antibiotics for the fourth time.

Antibiotic resistance restricts therapeutic options for treatment of bacterial infections and may put patients at risk. It is thus a major public health issue in Europe and globally. The European Antibiotic Awareness Day (EAAD) is a European health initiative coordinated with the involvement of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) that aims to provide a platform and sup...