Antibiotic  resistance  is  no  longer  a  concern  for  the  distant  future  but  is  a  pressing  issue, both globally and in Nepal. As part of  global effort to preserve the effectiveness of   antibiotics,  the  Global  Antibiotic  Resistance  Partnership  (GARP)-Nepal  was  established  to  doc...ument  the  current  state  of   antibiotic  access,  use  and  resistance  in  the country, and to identify policies and actions that could set a course for antibiotic sustainability.
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                                                                Antibiotics have been a critical public health tool since the discovery of Penicillin in 1928, saving the lives of millions of people around the world. In developing country like ours, where the burden of treatable disease is very high and access to health facilities and laboratories is difficult, a...ntibiotics have long acted as miracle drugs. Today, however, the emergence of drug
resistance in bacteria is reversing the miracles of the past eighty years, with drug choices for the treatment of many bacterial infections becoming increasingly limited, expensive, and in some cases, nonexistent. Diseases previously regarded as relatively easy to manage are much harder to treat as doctors must use “last-resort” drugs that are more costly, take longer to work
and are often unavailable or unaffordable in developing countries. Moreover, regular prescription of antibiotics, random treatment, over the counter sales, inadequate dosage, inclusion of antibiotics in animal feeds and agriculture has contributed equally to emergence of antibiotics resistance as silent epidemic within the country.
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                                                                Further analysis of the 2011 Nepal Demographic and Health Survey
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Further analysis of the 2011 Nepal Demographic and Health Survey
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                PLOS Medicine | www.plosmedicine.org
January 2013 | Volume 10 | Issue 1 | e1001371
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Wiping out Trachoma from Nepal – How Nepal eliminated trachoma as a public health problem 
WHO - 2018