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March 2015 - Medical Department in This Issue – Rational Use of Drugs MED PULSE | ISSUE 1 1 Med Pulse MARCH 2015 - MEDICAL DEPARTMENT IN THIS ISSUE – RATIONAL USE OF DRUGS RATIONAL USE OF DRUGS Essential medicines, as defined by the World Health such as hypertension, diabetes, epilepsy and mental Organization are "those drugs that satisfy the health care disorders. Inappropriate use and over-use of medicines needs of the majority of the population. They should wastes resources .This also causes often out-of-pocket therefore be available at all times in adequate amounts payments by patients. The result is significant patient and in appropriate dosage forms, at a price the harm in terms of poor patient outcomes and adverse community can afford." drug reactions. Efforts to promote rational drug use have been mainly targeted at the formal health care services. This started back in the 1970s, when WHO introduced the concept of essential drugs. The principle of the concept is that a limited number of drugs would lead to a better supply of drugs, better prescribing and lower costs for health care. Anti- microbial resistance Key facts Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) threatens the effective prevention and treatment of an ever-increasing range of infections caused by bacteria, parasites, viruses and fungi. It is an increasingly serious threat to global public health that requires action across all government This definition focuses on four important aspects of the sectors and society. rational use of medicines: AMR is present in all parts of the world. New correct medication, resistance mechanisms emerge and spread globally. correct dose, In 2012, there were about 450 000 new cases of correct duration of treatment and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). Extensively Correct cost. drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) has been identified in 92 countries. MDR-TB requires treatment Access to essential drugs is an important pre-requisite in courses that are much longer and less effective than health care. Available, affordable, good quality and those for non-resistant TB. properly used drugs can offer a simple and cost-effective Resistance to earlier generation anti-malarial drugs is answer to many health problems. widespread in most malaria-endemic countries. Further spread or emergence in other regions, of Lack of access to medicines or inappropriate doses result artemisinin-resistant strains of malaria could in serious morbidity and mortality. This is seen jeopardize important recent gains in control of the particularly in childhood infections and chronic diseases disease. MED PULSE | ISSUE 1 2 There are high proportions of antibiotic resistance Why is antimicrobial resistance a global (ABR) in bacteria that cause common infections (e.g. concern? urinary tract infections, pneumonia, bloodstream infections) in all regions of the world. A high New resistance mechanisms emerge and spread globally percentage of hospital-acquired infections are caused threatening our ability to treat common infectious by highly resistant bacteria such as methicillin- diseases, resulting in death and disability of individuals resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) or multidrug- who until recently could continue a normal course of life. resistant Gram-negative bacteria. Treatment failures due to resistance to treatments of Without effective anti-infective treatment, many stan- last resort for gonorrhoea (third-generation dard medical treatments will fail or turn into very high cephalosporins) have now been reported from 10 risk procedures. countries. Gonorrhoea may soon become untreatable as no vaccines or new drugs are in development. AMR kills Patients with infections caused by drug-resistant Infections caused by resistant microorganisms often fail bacteria are generally at increased risk of worse to respond to the standard treatment, resulting in clinical outcomes and death, and consume more prolonged illness, higher health care expenditures, and a healthcare resources than patients infected with the greater risk of death. same bacteria that are not resistant. As an example, the death rate for patients with serious What is antimicrobial resistance? infections caused by common bacteria treated in hospitals can be about twice that of patients with Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is resistance of a micro- infections caused by the same non-resistant bacteria. For organism to an antimicrobial drug that was originally example, people with MRSA (methicillin-resistant effective for treatment of infections caused by it. Staphylococcus aureus, another common source of severe infections in the community and in hospitals) are Resistant microorganisms (including bacteria, fungi, estimated to be 64% more likely to die than people with a viruses and parasites) are able to withstand attack by non-resistant form of the infection. antimicrobial drugs, such as antibacterial drugs (e.g., antibiotics), antifungals, antivirals, and antimalarials, so AMR hampers the control of infectious that standard treatments become ineffective and diseases infections persist, increasing the risk of spread to others. AMR reduces the effectiveness of treatment; thus patients remain infectious for a longer time, increasing The evolution of resistant strains is a natural the risk of spreading resistant microorganisms to others. phenomenon that occurs when microorganisms replicate themselves erroneously or when resistant traits are AMR increases the costs of health care exchanged between them. The use and misuse of When infections become resistant to first-line drugs, antimicrobial drugs accelerates the emergence of drug- more expensive therapies must be used. A longer resistant strains. Poor infection control practices, duration of illness and treatment, often in hospitals, inadequate sanitary conditions and inappropriate food- increases health care costs as well as the economic handling encourage the further spread of AMR. burden on families and societies. What is the difference between anti- AMR jeopardizes health care gains to society biotic and antimicrobial resistance? The achievements of modern medicine are put at risk by AMR. Without effective antimicrobials for prevention and Antibiotic resistance refers specifically to the resistance treatment of infections, the success of organ to antibiotics that occurs in common bacteria that cause transplantation, cancer chemotherapy and major surgery infections. Antimicrobial resistance is a broader term, would be compromised. encompassing resistance to drugs to treat infections caused by other microbes as well, such as parasites (e.g. malaria), viruses (e.g. HIV) and fungi (e.g. Candida). MED PULSE | ISSUE 1 3 AMR has the potential to threaten health Resistance in tuberculosis security, and damage trade and economies In 2012, there were an estimated 450 000 new cases of The growth of global trade and travel allows resistant MDR-TB in the world. Globally, 6% of new TB cases and microorganisms to be spread rapidly to distant countries 20% of previously treated TB cases are estimated to have and continents through humans and food. Estimates MDR-TB, with substantial differences in the frequency of show that AMR may give rise to losses in Gross Domestic MDR-TB among countries. Extensively drug-resistant TB Product of more than 1% and that the indirect costs (XDR-TB, defined as MDR-TB plus resistance to any affecting society may be more than 3 times the direct fluoroquinolone and any second-line injectable drug) has health care expenditures. It affects developing economies been identified in 92 countries, in all regions of the world. proportionally more than developed ones. Resistance in HIV Present situation Resistance is an emerging concern for treatment of HIV Resistance in bacteria infection, after the rapid expansion in access to antiretroviral drugs in recent years; national surveys are WHO’s 2014 report on global surveillance of antimicrobial underway to detect and monitor resistance. resistance reveals that antibiotic resistance is no longer a prediction for the future; it is happening right now, across At the end of 2011, more than 8 million people were the world, and is putting at risk the ability to treat receiving antiretroviral therapy in low- and middle- common infections in the community and hospitals. income countries to treat HIV. Although it can be Without urgent, coordinated action, the world is heading minimized through good programme practices, some towards a post-antibiotic era, in which common amount of resistance to the medications used to treat infections and minor injuries, which have been treatable HIV is expected to emerge. for decades, can once again kill. Analysis of data from WHO surveys that target people Treatment failure to the drug of last resort for who have been recently infected with HIV indicates gonorrhoea – third-generation cephalosporins – has increasing levels of resistance to the non-nucleoside been confirmed in several countries. Untreatable reverse transcriptase (NNRTI) class of drug used to treat gonococcal infections result in increased rates of HIV. This increase is particularly noticeable in Africa, illness and complications, such as infertility, adverse where the prevalence of resistance to NNRTI reached pregnancy outcomes and neonatal blindness, and 3.4% in 2009. have the potential to reverse the gains made in the control of this sexually transmitted infection. Resistance to one of the most widely used antibacterial drugs for the oral treatment of urinary tract infections caused by E. coli – fluoroquinolones – is very widespread. Resistance to first-line
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