Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Session 4 Posters 1 Posters 2 Posters 3 Posters 4 go to WHO page go to DAP page Combating the growth of resistance to antibiotics . Arguably the greatest threat to the access to affordable and appropriate medicine for the poor is the rising trend of resistance to common generic inexpensive antibiotics.
Low dosage is the greatest encouragement to growing resistance.
Antibiotic dosage is not a common indicator used for monitoring rational drug use. The study was a longitudinal time series. All commune health workers were enlisted district by district over a period of 18 months. Each district was monitored from before the study to 24 to 6 months after. They were monitored by both regular district supervision and two formal evaluations by external doctors.