An initiative for the development of a State-level Antimicrobial Stewardship policy

This work was a collaborative work with KSPC and the initiative from Sunitha when Renier was visiting India on this issue. We discussed with Dr. Shivananda at KSPC and made a presentation to the KSPC Board members and initiated this activity. Since that time we have conducted several studies with Karuna Trust and JSS Medical College, along with the University of Florida. We even started the first AMR-Stewardship cell at Acharya Institutes after this activity.

This research was executed after I joined Acharya Institutes as the Director — Research & Management from 2018.

Sunitha Chandrasekhar Srinivas, Maneesh Paul Satyaseela, Samson George, Ramakrishna Prasad, Renier Coetzee

South African Pharmaceutical Journal. 2020 Vol 87 No 1; 52–54
http://www.sapj.co.za/index.php/SAPJ/article/view/2793

Stakeholder engagement at Karnataka State Pharmacy Council for development of a State-level Antimicrobial Stewardship policy

Inappropriate use of antibiotics by health professionals and individuals, that is aggravated by an insufficient implementation of the local and national policy and governance of antimicrobial agents,1 leads to antimicrobial resistance (AMR), a major global public health problem resulting in negative health and economic consequences.2 The need to address this major public health problem was catalysed in May 2015 when the 68th World Health Assembly (WHA) endorsed the Global Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance (GAP-AMR) and urged United Nations Member States to formulate and align their National Action Plans on AMR with GAP-AMR by May 2017.

Originally published at http://discover.ind.in on June 6, 2021.