Cambodia joins forces to tackle antimicrobial resistance

January 6, 2020/ FAO.
http://www.fao.org/

14-Feb-2020 (6 years 3 months 24 days ago)

Cambodia's first ever guiding document for actions to combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the country including strategies in the following areas:

  1. Building human capacity for AMR
  2. Containing AMR through good practices
  3. Evidence generation through surveillance and laboratories
  4. Governance and coordination to reduce antimicrobial resistance
  5. Increasing public awareness
  6. Rational use of antimicrobial medicines
  7. Research and innovation for antimicrobial resistance

This action plan was jointly prepared by the (MoH), the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF), and the Ministry of Environment (MoE); and developed in collaboration with the Tripartite on AMR, consisting of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) and the World Health Organization (WHO).

Several positive initiatives were established, including a national policy (2014) and a strategy (2015-2017) on combating AMR, followed by the drafting of a national action plan on AMR for food and agriculture.