National Strategy and Action Plan for Combating Antimicrobial Resistance (NAP-AMR).

This National Strategy and Action Plan for Combating Antimicrobial Resistance is a 5 -year national document for response to AMR in the human health, and food, animal, and environment sectors. It provides strategies and planned activities for the concerned governmental entities, healthcare providers, and facilities, under the “One Health” approach, in line with international guidelines and evidence-based practices. The objectives of the NAP will be achieved by implementing the following strategic activities (i) improving awareness of AMR and promoting behavioral change at the public and professional levels under the “One Health” approach; (ii) performing epidemiologically representative AMR surveillance in humans, animals, agriculture and environment; (iii) optimizing IPC programs implementation in different settings as well as strengthening IPC education; (iv) organizing antimicrobial use in humans, animals, and agriculture, as well as ensuring the adequate quality of antimicrobials used; (v) enhancing academic research in the direction of proving the importance of the actions that are to be taken in the plan, to motivate higher authorities to support it and provide the necessary budget.
To make agriculture more productive and sustainable, the Strategy proposes to (i) request an AMR Education for licensing of health-related professions in human health, veterinary, food, agriculture, and environment sectors; (ii) establish AMR surveillance in the veterinary field; (iii) review and adapt biosafety laws in veterinary, agriculture, and food safety to cover all aspects of IPC; (iv) develop laws for ABX use in animals; (v) improve the awareness of veterinarians and farmers on the use of ABX and encourage research about alternatives to ABX in animals; (vi) improve the awareness of ABX use in agriculture and environment.
To increase the resilience of livelihoods to disasters, strategic interventions are to (i) standardization of AMR surveillance; (ii) building laboratory capacity for all related sectors; (iii) development of AMR surveillance in food; (iv) establishment/adoption of national IPC guidelines; (v) surveillance of ABX use in humans; (vi) improve ABX use in food.
The Governance Strategic Plan to combat AMR includes (i) a comprehensive National Action Plan for combatting AMR development; (ii) ensure high-level support of the National Multi-sectoral Committee Group (NMCG) and NAP; (iii) guarantee to the NAP political support and allocated budget; (iv) nomination of a task force that will work on Governance.