People-centred AMR response should not be a tokenistic or transactional affair. It must mean that the people are literally in the centre of designing AMR policies and implementing them. That is where we go wrong, I think, cautioned Tracie.
We all are at risk of AMR but are all engaged?
Both Katherine and Tracie call for tailoring AMR messaging and communications so that different communities and organisations can be effectively engaged in AMR responses at all levels.
AMR connects multiple sectors of human health, animal health and livestock, food and agriculture, and environment. Even within these sectors there are several sub-sectors focussed on specific health and development issues. We need to engage them meaningfully in united AMR responses with One Health approach.
Thanks to the WHO and other agencies including Quadripartite Joint Secretariat on AMR (which unites WHO, FAO, UNEP and WOAH to address AMR, using One Health approach), World AMR Awareness Week is observed worldwide at all levels during 18-24 November every year.
But AMR awareness campaigns and advocacy to impact change must be a year-round perennial activity, says Tracie.
International Human Rights Day 10th December and Universal Health Coverage Day 12th December
AMR is not just a health and scientific issue, rather it is both a justice and developmental issue. Right antimicrobial for the right patient at the right time this is actually a justice issue it is a human rights issue, said Tracie Muraya. She called for leveraging upon Universal Health Coverage push in all countries to improve AMR responses.
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