Training Health Care Workers on the Quality of Antimicrobial Prescriptions
AMR and AMU in Primary Health care
Integrated Patient Centered Health Services for AMR in Primary care
Vijiji Tanzania advocates for the effective fight on Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) primary health care as a response that supports essential public health functions. Vijiji Tanzania works in Primary Health care facilities in addressing effective infection prevention and control procedures, adequate water and sanitation, and well-resourced, trained health care workers. Patients’ first contact with the health system should involve comprehensive, continuous, coordinated and patient-centered care. To ensure rational prescribing, this primary care must be integrated with systems that monitor antibiotic use and emergent resistance at the community level. Prescribing can then be based on accurate diagnosis and local resistance patterns when Antimicrobial Use (AMU) has been well measures. The five elements of essential public health functions in primary health care are: health protection, health promotion, disease prevention (service delivery), surveillance and preparedness (intelligence). These functions are key to the effective prevention and management of infection as well as more appropriate use of antibiotics, which underpins AMR control in Tanzania.