In cooperation with the Palestinian Foundation for Infection Control and the Ministry of Health, the e-bug project following to faculty of Science Health is organizing from 13-19 Nov. a conference included in the campaign “Antibiotic Awareness Week”. The campaign comes in the context of encouraging people to follow up best practices that averted more cases from being resisted to antibiotics. Consequently, searching for best ways to get rid of them. In this week, Health Science partakes the global campaign in reducing the bacterial resistance to antibiotics for the second year.
Over the past decade, Antibiotics has caused enormous progress in the health field. It has minimized numbers of deaths due to infectious diseases from 50% to 3%. Alas, these drugs, which considered a miracle, have been misused irresponsibly which led to the emergence of Bacterial strains resisting antibiotics. This has alarmingly increased the reason that makes the treatment much more complicated and threatens the immense development in the field of preventing infectious diseases.
The problem is the third largest health challenge facing the world in the twenty-first century. There are expectations that this phenomenon will cause 10 million killings annually by 2050, as WHO stated.
In a spirit of responsibility, the project has intended to open a partnership with academic, governmental and public institutions for reviving this week through launching scientific lectures, voice messages disseminated through local radio & television interviews, posters, and articles on social media. What distinguishes this campaign is the rich experiences that put some related-antibiotic concepts in the light.
