The WHO Essential Medicines List Antibiotic Book: infographics

Draft for consultation. UPDATE 1 February 2022: The consultation period is now closed. Thank you to all who have responded. Comments received are currently being reviewed and addressed.

Overview

There is a clear need for simple resources to improve the quality of antibiotic prescribing globally. The Handbook was designed as a tool to make the WHO model Essential Medicines Lists for adults and children (EML and EMLc) of antibiotics more helpful to prescribers and to update the 5 previous WHO 2001 WHO Model Prescribing Information.

The WHO Essential Medicines List Antibiotic Book: improving antibiotic AWaReness

Public consultation on the draft WHO Essential Medicines List Antibiotic Book

 

Number of pages
141