{"id":20016,"date":"2016-09-14T21:34:33","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T21:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/?p=20016"},"modified":"2016-09-14T21:34:33","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T21:34:33","slug":"press-briefing-what-is-antimicrobial-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/blog\/2016\/09\/press-briefing-what-is-antimicrobial-resistance\/","title":{"rendered":"Press briefing: What is antimicrobial resistance?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press Briefing, Thurs.,\u00a015 Sept.<\/strong>
\nWhat is \u201cantimicrobial resistance\u201d and why it affects us<\/strong><\/p>\n

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What:<\/strong> Press briefing ahead of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ General Assembly High-Level Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance.<\/p>\n

Who:<\/strong> Dr. Keiji Fukuda, Special Representative for Antimicrobial Resistance and Assistant Director-General, World Health Organization<\/p>\n

When:<\/strong> Thursday, 15 September 2016, 11 a.m. EST<\/p>\n

Where:<\/strong> S-237, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Headquarters, New York or live through webtv.un.org<\/p>\n

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Background:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Antimicrobial resistance is resistance of a microorganism to an antimicrobial drug that was originally effective for treatment of infections caused by it.
\nThe use and misuse of antimicrobial drugs accelerates the emergence of drug-resistant strains. Poor infection control practices, inadequate sanitary conditions and inappropriate food-handling encourage the further spread of antimicrobial resistance.<\/p>\n

New resistance mechanisms emerge and spread globally threatening our ability to treat common infectious diseases, resulting in death and disability of people who until recently could continue a normal course of life. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization, every year around 500,000 people die from causes related to antimicrobial resistance.<\/p>\n

The President of the General Assembly, the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Organisation for Animal Health will convene a High-Level Meeting to address the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance on 21 September at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Headquarters. This will be only the fourth such General Assembly event in the history to focus of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ on a health issue.<\/p>\n

More details available at: https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/70\/events\/high-level-meeting-on-antimicrobial-resistance\/<\/a><\/p>\n

For Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Media Accreditation, visit: www.un.org\/en\/media\/accreditation<\/a><\/p>\n

Press contact:<\/strong>
\nMs. Devi Palanivelu, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Department of Public Information, tel: 212-963-1104, email: palanivelu@un.org<\/a>
\nMs. Melanie Prudhomme, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Department of Public Information, tel: 917-367-3541, email: prudhommem@un.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Available for interviews:<\/strong>
\nDr. Keiji Fukuda, Special Representative for Antimicrobial Resistance and Assistant Director-General, World Health Organization<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The use and misuse of antimicrobial drugs accelerates the emergence of drug-resistant strains, the WHO says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":230,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4,5270],"tags":[277,5776],"class_list":["post-20016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-news","category-press-material","tag-health","tag-press-material"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}