Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. Indeed, this tool classifies antibiotics into four groups: access, watch, reserve and not-recommended antibiotics. In The Democratic Republic of Congo, data on antibiotic dispensing prescribing by health professionals according to the AWaRe classification are scarce. In this research work, we aimed to explore antibiotic dispensing pattern from health professionals according to the WHO AWaRe classification to strengthen the national antimicrobial resistance plan.
Methods: For this purpose, a survey was conducted from July to December in the district of Tshangu in Kinshasa. From randomly selected drugstores, drug-sellers were interviewed and randomly selected customers attending those drugstores were included in the study for medical prescriptions collection. The prescribed antibiotics were classified into the access, watch, reserve and not-recommended antibiotics group and by antibiotics number by prescription among pharmacies surveyed.
Results: medical prescriptions were collected from 80 drugstores and among which, Out of prescriptions, we noticed A total of antibiotics were prescribed and distributed as This can explain the fact of emerging bacterial strains, as, according to the WHO recommendations, the access group should be prioritized because of its activity against a wide range of commonly encountered pathogens and its showing low resistance susceptibility compared to antibiotics from other groups.
Based on the anatomical, therapeutic and chemical ATC classifications, we observed that third generation cephalosporins represented Additionally, among them, the most frequently prescribed antibiotics were Ceftriaxone Conclusion: These results highlight the importance of strict implementation of the national plan to combat antimicrobial resistance and the need to train health workers in the correct application of the WHO AWaRe classification.
Antimicrobials play a major role in the fight against infectious diseases around the world. Unfortunately, excessive and abusive use of antimicrobials is at the origin of the emergence and spread of resistance to a large number of antimicrobials, making them less and less effective against infectious diseases. Antimicrobial resistance AMR threatens the survival of all humanity and is, therefore, becoming a major public health problem worldwide [ 1 , 2 ]. Although AMR is a problem that affects all regions of the world, it remains more pronounced in Sub-Saharan African countries because projections made by the World Health Organization WHO show that if adequate provisions are not taken in time, the AMR would cause more than 4,, deaths by [ 3 ].
