1. Commit to a comprehensive, financed national plan with accountability and civil society engagement
2. Strengthen surveillance and laboratory capacity
3. Ensure uninterrupted access to essential medicines of assured quality
4. Regulate and promote rational use of medicines, including in animal husbandry, and ensure proper patient care
5. Enhance Infection Prevention and Control (IPC)
6. Foster innovations and research and development for new tools

Commit to a comprehensive, financed national plan with accountability and civil society engagement. A master plan to combat antimicrobial resistance.

• Why is it essential?
• Challenges to overcome
• The role of government

Strengthen surveillance and laboratory capacity

• Why is it necessary? 
• Challenges to overcome
• Core actions

Ensure uninterrupted access to essential medicines of assured quality

• Why is it necessary? 
• Challenges to overcome
  
• Core Actions 
  

Regulate and promote rational use of medicines, including in animal husbandry, and ensure proper patient care.

Reduce use of antimicrobials in food-producing animals.

• Why address it?
  
• Challenges to overcome
  
• Examples
  

Enhance infection prevention and control (IPC).

• Why are prevention and control of infections essential?
  
• Challenges to overcome
  
• Core Actions
  
• Selected IPC practices for prevention of emergence and spread of antimicrobial-resistant organisms 
  

Foster innovations and research and development for new tools.

• Why are more research and new product development essential?
  
• Challenges to overcome
  
• Core Actions
  
• The antimicrobial research and development pipeline