antibiotic | NZVA launches video series to raise awareness around antimicrobial resistance

Preventing antibiotic-resistant superbugs is everyone’s responsibility, says NZVA as world observes AMR Week.

The New Zealand Veterinary Association has a message for animal owners for 2024’s World AMR Awareness Week: ‘teamwork makes dreamwork’.

The New Zealand Veterinary Association (NZVA) says by working together, veterinarians and animal owners have an essential role to play in preventing antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and safeguarding antibiotics for when they are needed most in human and animal health.

Marking the week (18-24 November 2024) and this year’s theme – “Educate. Advocate. Act now.” – the NZVA today launched a five-part series of videos, to raise AMR awareness by challenging some of the common misconceptions about antibiotics. A new video will released each week over a five-week period.

The first video, ‘Antibiotics can fix everything’, features veterinarian Dr Stephen “Hoppy” Hopkinson discussing common misconceptions about antibiotics, with great tips on how you can help protect these important medicines.

“Like our own doctors, vets prescribe these drugs very carefully because overusing them or prescribing them for the wrong things can lead to resistant superbugs. We really encourage animal owners to work with their vet teams to reduce the need for antibiotics,” Hopkins said.

NZVA AMR committee chair Annabel Harris said everyone has a part to play in preventing AMR.

“We’ve lived in a golden age where antibiotics have been readily available.”

“They have been and continue to be an amazing tool, but the reality is we’re not developing new antibiotics that will treat infections without damaging the host, and we’ve already seen the effects of AMR in New Zealand and overseas.

“We’ve got this taonga in the form of antibiotics that we need to protect. It’s easy to forget what it was like when we didn’t have access to these amazing tools, so it’s on all of us to protect them.”

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