Quick fix for care, productivity, hygiene and inequality: reframing the entrenched problem of antibiotic overuse.

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Abstract
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major challenge of our time. A key global objective is to reduce antibiotic use (ABU), in order to reduce resistance caused by antimicrobial pressure. This is often set as a 'behaviour change' issue, locating intervention efforts in the knowledge and attitudes of individual prescribers and users of medicines. Such approaches have had limited impact and fall short of addressing wider drivers of antibiotic use. To address the magnitude of antibiotic overuse requires a wider lens to view our relationships with these medicines. This article draws on ethnographic research from East Africa to answer the question of what roles antibiotics play beyond their immediate curative effects. We carried out interviews, participant observation and documentary analysis over a decade in northeast Tanzania and eastern and central Uganda. Our findings suggest that antibiotics have become a 'quick fix' in our modern societies. They are a in fractured health systems; a at local and global scales, for humans, animals and crops; a in settings of minimised resources; and a in landscapes scarred by political and economic violence. Conceptualising antibiotic use as a 'quick fix' infrastructure shifts attention to the structural dimensions of AMR and antimicrobial use (AMU) and raises our line of sight into the longer term, generating more systemic solutions that have greater chance of achieving equitable impact.
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Authors Denyer Willis, Laurie;Chandler, Clare;
Journal BMJ global health
Year 2019
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10.1136/bmjgh-2019-001590
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care inequality productivity antimicrobial resistance hygiene

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