CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -What is a Red Line campaign? The Union health ministry’s Anti-Microbial Resistance awareness campaign urges people not to use medicines marked with a red vertical line, including antibiotics, without a doctor’s prescription.

Detailed explanation-2: -This red line campaign was launched by the honorable Health Minister in February 2016. This was a mass awareness campaign. The antibiotics which are included in this red line campaign are quinolones, cephalosporin and carbapenems.

Detailed explanation-3: -A new World Health Organization (WHO) report reveals high levels of resistance in bacteria, causing life-threatening bloodstream infections, as well as increasing resistance to treatment in several bacteria causing common infections in the community based on data reported by 87 countries in 2020.

Detailed explanation-4: -How Antimicrobial Resistance Happens. Antimicrobial resistance happens when germs like bacteria and fungi develop the ability to defeat the drugs designed to kill them. Resistant infections can be difficult, and sometimes impossible, to treat. Antimicrobial resistance is a naturally occurring process.

Detailed explanation-5: -What is the Antimicrobial Resistance? Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites change over time and no longer respond to medicines making infections harder to treat and increasing the risk of disease spread, severe illness and death.