How community engagement in Nigeria is reducing misuse of antibiotics | Wellcome
Channel: Wellcome
Date: 2020-11-18

In Nigeria, labourers and farmers in local rural communities have been mistakenly using antibiotics as painkillers. The inappropriate or overuse of antibiotics in this way can speed up the rise of drug resistance. 

To tackle this, researchers in the Department of Microbiology at Bayero University, Kano, started an outreach programme to inform students and communities in the area about antimicrobial resistance and the need to use antibiotics appropriately.

To find out more about their efforts and other global innovators, visit https://wellcome.org/news/six-pioneering-ways-stop-superbugs

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