3rd Global High-Level Ministerial Conference on Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR): The Third Global Ministerial Conference on Antimicrobial Resistance concluded in Oman, with the issue of The Muscat Manifesto, which aims to accelerate One Health actions on antimicrobial resistance to achieve the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Bharati Pravin Pawar, Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, attended the ‘third global high-level ministerial conference on antimicrobial resistance’.
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Theme Of The Event:
The conference will strengthen worldwide collaboration to combat AMR and build on the success of the two prior high-level ministerial conferences conducted in the Netherlands in 2014 and 2019. The meeting’s topic is “The AMR Pandemic: From Policy to One Health Action.”
More About This:
The participants, who included more than 30 ministers and representatives of more than 40 countries from around the world in the fields of human, animal and environmental health, adopted the Muscat Manifesto to commit to working towards achieving three goals.
The Ambitious Target: Key Objectives:
To reduce the total amount of antimicrobials used in the agri-food system by at least 30-50 percent from the current level by 2030. This ambitious goal seeks to stimulate solid political action at the national and global levels and unify efforts and commitment. The scope of this target will allow countries the flexibility to adapt it to their contexts, priorities and resources available, to reduce the need for antimicrobials and strengthen animal health and safety systems. The second objective is that antimicrobials of medical importance for human medicine will not be used permanently in animals for non-veterinary medical purposes or in crop production and agri-food systems for non-phytosanitary purposes. The third objective is to make sure that by 2030, at least 60% of all antibiotics consumed by humans will belong to the Access group.
