世界健康日 World Health Day

　　Each year WHO selects a very important global problem of health and targets this on World Health Day. This year World Health Day is April 7, the day of the founding of WHO. As presented on the WHO web site, this year the target is

　　“Antimicrobial resistance: no action today, no cure tomorrow”

　　“Antimicrobial resistance is not a new problem but one that is becoming more dangerous; urgent and consolidated efforts are needed to avoid regressing to the pre-antibiotic era.

　　On World Health Day 2011, WHO will introduce a six-point policy package to combat the spread of antimicrobial resistance.

　　Antimicrobial resistance and its global spread

　　We live in an era in which we depend on antibiotics, and other antimicrobial medicines to treat conditions that decades ago, or even a few years ago in the case of HIV/AIDS, would have proved fatal. When antimicrobial resistance - also known as drug resistance - occurs, it renders these medicines ineffective. For World Health Day 2011, WHO will be calling for intensified global commitment to safeguard these medicines for future generations. Antimicrobial resistance - the theme of World Health Day 2011 - and its global spread, threatens the continued effectiveness of many medicines used today to treat infectious diseases.

　　For World Health Day 2011, WHO will call on governments and stakeholders to implement the policies and practices needed to prevent and counter the emergence of highly resistant microorganisms. “

　　This comes directly from the WHO world health day web site. http://www.who.int/world-health-day/2011/en/ .