World Health Organization (WHO) launched a global campaign named AWaRe

Question: AWaRe has been launched by which organization?
(a) WHO
(b) UNCTAD
(c) UNESCO
(d) UNICEF
Answer: (a)
Related facts:

  • On 18 June 2019, World Health Organization (WHO) launched a global campaign named AWaRe urging governments to adopt a tool to reduce the spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), adverse events and costs.
  • It is developed by the WHO Essential Medicines List.
  • It classifies antibiotics into three groups – Access, Watch and Reserve.
  • The campaigns aims to increase the proportion of global consumption of antibiotics in the Access group to at least 60% and to reduce the use of the antibiotics from the Watch and Reserve groups.
  • However,the AWaRe campaign: Adopt AWaRe, Handle antibiotics with care –was officially launched on 19 June by the Ministers of Health of The Netherlands and Indonesia and WHO Assistant-Director General Hanan Balkhy, at the second ministerial conference on AMR in Noordwijk, The Netherlands.

World Health Organization (WHO)

  • The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that is concerned with international public health.
  • It was established on 7th April, 1948, and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.
  • The WHO is a member of the United Nations Development Group.

Links:
https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/18-06-2019-in-the-face-of-slow-progress-who-offers-a-new-tool-and-sets-a-target-to-accelerate-action-against-antimicrobial-resistance
https://www.kff.org/news-summary/who-launches-global-campaign-urging-governments-to-adopt-aware-tool-to-help-reduce-spread-of-antimicrobial-resistance/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization