DTE Coverage: World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2022
The WAAW 2022 concluded with the Muscat Ministerial Manifesto on AMR
Antimicrobial resistance: How factory farming is destroying our planet
The health and well-being of animals, people and our planet are interdependent. Poor animal health and welfare in intensive farming negatively affect food safety, our environment and climate
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Antimicrobial resistance: India needs waste management, process control to prevent antibiotic pollution
Manufacturing process needs control measures; 43% of world’s rivers contaminated with active pharmaceutical ingredients
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Antimicrobial resistance: Here are some practices that can improve milk quality, cattle health
There is a lack of knowledge and expertise regarding how to limit the use of antibiotics at the farm level without harming cattle health
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Antimicrobial resistance: Madhya Pradesh’s action plan needs targeted and specific interventions
Antibiotics in food animals an essential environmental and public health issue
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Antimicrobial resistance: Intensification of food production must be sustainable
Rise in demand for meat and dairy products was reconciled through the intensification of livestock systems
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Antimicrobial resistance: How biosecurity in livestock can be a tool to improve animal health, reduce antimicrobial use
Inability to measure biosecurity and hygiene status of a farm has been a major obstacle
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Antimicrobial resistance: Can sustainable integrated multi-trophic aquaculture reduce AMR in aquatic systems
Developing sustainable and well-maintained integrated multi-trophic aquaculture systems could be a new hope to constrain AMR
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Antimicrobial resistance: Use these ethnoveterinary medicines for Lumpy Skin Disease
Healthcare systems for livestock should be accessible, affordable and effective; ethnoveterinary medicine fulfils this criteria
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Antimicrobial resistance: Zimbabwe has created momentum for success, but more work needed
Country's drug resistance index at 66.6% against a benchmark of 25%
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Antimicrobial resistance: Here are some practices to ensure safe poultry
All farmers and flock handlers are trained specifically for the no antibiotics policy
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Antimicrobial resistance: Multi-stakeholder platform launched to drive collective action, collaboration
The platform is expected to build global momentum & high-level advocacy to combat AMR
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Antimicrobial resistance: India needs to enhance framework for monitoring antibiotics
Global procurement focus shifting to monitoring drug manufacturing practices
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Antimicrobial resistance: These tribal Andhra districts effectively use ethnoveterinary medicine for poultry care
The formal poultry healthcare service system in the tribal districts Alluri Seetha Ramaju and Parvathipuram Manyam is almost non-existent
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Antimicrobial resistance: ‘We must understand the phenomenon and how it can be tackled’
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We need to remember that lower the chances of infection, lower would be the use of antibiotics / antimicrobials
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Antimicrobial resistance: Here is how Malaysia endeavours to protect its people from AMR
Public awareness campaigns related to the prudent use of antimicrobial agents can reduce the misuse of antimicrobials in animals
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Antimicrobial resistance: Prevention key to control pandemics
Important to prevent emergence and spread of infections to reduce need and dependence on antimicrobials
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Antimicrobial resistance: Here is how National AMR hub helps contain the silent pandemic
India was the highest consumer of antimicrobials, followed by China and the United States
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Antimicrobial resistance: Here is how pharma companies can reduce antibiotic pollution in effluents
There is a high risk of antibiotic residues entering the environment from wastewater used in manufacturing pharmaceuticals
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Antimicrobial resistance: 5 years after AMR national plan came out, only 3 states have one of their own
The state action plans of Kerala, Madhya Pradesh and Delhi too make only passing remarks about inter-sectoral cooperation, with measurable outcomes
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Antimicrobial resistance: These steps can ensure AMR doesn’t develop in newborns
Vaccination, early diagnosis, improved sanitation, access to clean water, proper hand hygiene, kangaroo mother care and early breastfeeding can reduce likelihood of infection and need for antimicrobials
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Antimicrobial Resistance: New CSE report focuses on major ethnoveterinary medicine programme
AMR has been recognised as a ‘silent pandemic’ and is a global public health threat today
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World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2022 ends with Muscat Ministerial Manifesto on AMR
The Manifesto has called upon different stakeholders in human and animal health as well as environment sectors to come together to implement AMR National Action Plans
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‘Ethnoveterinary medicine is a simple, cost-effective, farmer-friendly tool’
Down To Earth speaks to Anil Kr Bayati, managing director of Sabar Dairy in Sabarkantha, Gujarat about the use of EVM at the dairy
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‘Ethnoveterinary medicine will be a game changer for dairy in India’
Down To Earth speaks to Meenesh Shah, chairman, NDDB on EVM use in the Indian dairy sector
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‘Ethnoveterinary medicines can be used as preventives and curatives’
Down To Earth spoke to MNB Nair from the Center for Ethno-Veterinary Science and Practice, The University of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology, Bengaluru about the science of EVM
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World AMR Awareness Week: How ethnoveterinary medicines combat antimicrobial resistance
The biggest USP of ethnoveterinary medicines is that they can be prepared at home; simple ingredients of EVMs can work against several bovine ailments
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Antimicrobial resistance: Zero Liquid Discharge can help contain environmental AMR
Pharmaceutical company in Gujarat designed a ZLD unit to remove antibiotics from manufacturing wastewater
Antimicrobial resistance: Here’s what can be done to address environmental AMR in India
India is the world’s largest consumer of antibiotics in terms of total volume