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Last 25 and 26 of June 2014, ministers of health and agriculture and representatives of Member States from different regions of the World Health Organisation and of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), together with the Directors-General of WHO, OIE and FAO, have gathered in The Hague, The Netherlands, to discuss ways to face the challenges posed by the threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
All together, they acknowledged the need of a common action against AMR, involving both human health and agricultural policies. Discussions outlined the shared willingness to design it as a stepwise approach, allowing the reduction in prevalence of antimicrobial resistance without endangering food supply and economical system.
In order to tackle the threat of AMR, the OIE promotes, through its intergovernmental standards, the responsible and prudent use of antimicrobials to preserve their therapeutic efficacy in both animals and humans, and the implementation of risk assessment measures.
The lack of harmonised surveillance systems allowing transparency on the use and circulation of antimicrobials and the prevalence of resistance is an important obstacle to the elaboration of global measures against AMR. The global and harmonised collection as soon as possible by the OIE disease information system of such data must be considered as a priority.
Thursday June 26, 2014/ OIE.
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