DHAKA, Sept 14, 2023 (BSS) - Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) on Wednesday got the membership of the Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Multi-Stakeholder Partnership Platform.

Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Multi-Stakeholder Partnership Platform is part of a set of global governance structures on AMR, alongside the AMR Global Leaders Group on Antimicrobial Resistance and the Independent Panel on Evidence for Action against AMR, said a press release.

Facilitated by the Quadripartite - comprising the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the UN Environment Program (UNEP), World Health Organization. (WHO) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) - the AMR Partnership Platform is a voluntary, it added.

The platform's aim is to catalyze a global movement for action against Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), said a press release today.

It aims to be an inclusive, international, and multi-stakeholder forum that convenes stakeholders across the human, animal, plant and environmental spectrum to assist in preserving antimicrobials as lifesaving medicines and ensuring their responsible use under a One Health approach.

According to the World Health Organization, antibiotic resistance is a condition that occurs when certain bacteria acquire the ability to survive the attack of antibiotics. These bacteria are called antibiotic-resistant bacteria. 

As they become adapted to the presence of antibiotics, they can grow and reproduce at their normal rate. 

As a result, the immune system of the human or animal body decreases. Their disease, which was previously cured by antibiotics, is no longer cured by those antibiotics but continues to grow.
 
These diseased people or animals spread antibiotic-resistant bacteria inside their bodies to others through sneezing and coughing in the presence of others, and they also get the same incurable disease.

BNNRC's initiative is creating awareness at the local level about the impending crisis of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) through ongoing community radios in the country. Community radio broadcasting has already organized and broadcast the talks with the participation of the concerned stakeholders. 

In the talk show, what are antibiotics and antibiotic resistance, why does antibiotic resistance occur, and why is antibiotic resistance increasing? What causes antibiotic resistance, who is most at risk, ways to prevent antibiotic resistance, why antibiotic resistance is important for the implementation of SDG Goal-3 (Good health and well-being), what stakeholders should do to prevent antibiotic resistance, such as the general public, doctors, pharmacy owner and governments? Local-level medicine buyers, medicine sellers, and doctors were present as discussants in the said conversation on community radios.

BNNRC is in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), accredited with World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), SDGs Media Compact of the United Nations and UN WSIS prize winner 2016, Champion 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2023 for media development and digital transformation.