{"id":10784,"date":"2021-03-23T10:55:26","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T10:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=10784"},"modified":"2021-03-23T10:55:26","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T10:55:26","slug":"under-the-microscope-australias-efforts-to-curb-antimicrobial-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/03\/23\/under-the-microscope-australias-efforts-to-curb-antimicrobial-resistance\/","title":{"rendered":"Under the microscope: Australia\u2019s efforts to curb antimicrobial resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Australian Government has published the Final Progress Report for Australia\u2019s First National Antimicrobial Resistance Strategy 2015\u20132019 detailing our efforts to limit the incidence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Australia.
\nAMR is recognised as one of the most serious health problems facing the world. As bacteria, viruses and fungi continue to develop resistance to existing medications, this presents a greater risk of serious health impacts, as well as affecting food production, and the livelihoods and security of producers.
\nIn 2020, the Australian Government released the National Antimicrobial Resistance Strategy \u2013 2020 & Beyond and announced more than $22.5 million over four years in the 2020\u00ad\u201321 Budget to implement it.
\nMinister for Agriculture, Drought and Emergency Management, David Littleproud, said that globally the use of antibiotics in livestock had been recognised as a potential source for antimicrobial resistance.
\n\u201cAustralia is a world leader in minimising the use of antibiotics in food-producing animals which means that there is a low risk of developing antimicrobial resistance from animals in this country,\u201d Minister Littleproud said.
\n\u201cWe have introduced regulatory and industry changes to ensure that registered animal antimicrobials that are medically important for human health no longer claim to promote growth in animals.\u201d
\nMinister for Health and Aged Care, Greg Hunt, said the report identified important AMR initiatives and the collaborative efforts by government and private sector organisations across the One Health sectors of human and animal health, food and the environment.
\n\u201cThese combined efforts aim to minimise the emergence and spread of drug-resistant organisms in Australia and the region will ensure antimicrobial medicines continue to be effective and available to treat infections into the future,\u201d Minister Hunt said.
\n\u201cWe have seen antibiotic dispensing rates for Australians steadily decrease, down approximately 13 per cent since a peak in 2015, equating to around two million fewer prescriptions dispensed, which is a really positive development.
\n\u201cThis and other initiatives show there is increasing understanding and awareness among doctors and the community of the importance of only using antibiotics when absolutely necessary.\u201d
\nMinister for the Environment, Sussan Ley, said Australian research is adding to our understanding of how antimicrobials enter our environment and accumulate over time.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s not just limited to hospital floors, drug-resistant bacteria, viruses and fungi can evolve in any environment,\u201d Minister Ley said.
\n\u201cOur new national AMR strategy will be supported with initiatives including developing a \u2018One Health\u2019 surveillance system, a national antimicrobial resistance research and development agenda and a national monitoring and evaluation framework.\u201d
\nMinister Ley is a member of the One Health Global Leaders Group on Antimicrobial Resistance.
\nFor more information, please refer to\u00a0www.amr.gov.au<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Australian Government has published the Final Progress Report for Australia\u2019s First National Antimicrobial Resistance Strategy 2015\u20132019 detailing our efforts to limit the incidence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Australia. AMR is recognised as one of the most serious health problems facing the world. As bacteria, viruses and fungi continue to develop resistance to existing … Continue reading “Under the microscope: Australia\u2019s efforts to curb antimicrobial resistance”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}