India, Feb. 20 -- The World Health Organization (WHO) has highlighted that countries in the African Region are making significant strides in tackling Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR). In comparison with previous years, a large number of countries have shown improvement across various key areas.

These include an increase in the number of nations with national action plans (NAPs), functional multisectoral AMR working groups, national AMR awareness campaigns, national surveillance activities for common bacterial pathogens, and the adoption of the WHO's access, watch, and reserve (AWaRe) classification for antibiotics in essential medicines lists (EMLs).

This report presents the findings from the seventh round of the Tracking AMR Country Self...