Introduction: Antibiotic resistance (ABR) is a growing public health problem and is a subject of international concern. It poses a serious threat to health and health-care systems in both developed and developing countries. The problem is more confounding with tuberculosis (TB), and drug resistance in TB has threatened the progress made in TB care and control worldwide. The aim of this study was to understand the knowledge, attitude, and practices of health-care providers (HCPs) toward antibiotics, antibiotic prescribing, ABR, and multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB). Materials and Methods: A total of 125 participants were included in this cross-sectional, questionnaire-based survey conducted in tertiary care teaching hospitals of the Delhi-NCR region. A five-point Likert scale, whose responses ranged from “strongly agree” to “do not know,” was used to record the responses from participants. Results: Among the 125 HCPs who participated in the survey, the response rate was 100%. Around 94.4% of the respondents agreed that ABR is an important and a serious public health issue. More than 80% of the respondents strongly agreed that over-the-counter sale and/or dispensing antibiotics without prescription should be controlled. About 86.4% of the participants agreed that MDR-TB is a growing problem and 59.2% strongly agreed that indiscriminate use of anti-TB drugs could be a major causative factor. Almost 85.6% of the participants agreed that a proper diagnosis should be ensured before treating the TB cases. Conclusions: HCPs had a good knowledge of antibiotics and the association of its misuse or overuse with increasing ABR. Educational and persuasive measures are certainly needed, but the use of restrictive and organizational measures appears mandatory if the misuse of antibiotics is to be decreased in the near future. A stringent assessment of the impact of implemented measures seems essential to better guide antibiotic stewardship in our country.
The Covid-19 pandemic has struck at a moment when the natural world is more intertwined than ever before. It's the rst pandemic of the digital era, and never before has it been possible to communicate and stay connected so swiftly during a pandemic.Though physical connectivity has hastened the disease's spread over the globe due to extensive travel, social media connectivity is a tool that, when utilised properly and judiciously, can inuence people's behaviour and enhance individual’s and global health.These social media portals may be used to quickly broadcast signicant new information, relevant new scientic results, discuss diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up protocols, and evaluate alternative techniques globally, removing potential geographic barriers. Simultaneously, a massive volume of potentially harmful misinformation is spreading at a faster rate via social media than the disease itself. As a result, it is vital to give timely, reliable, and trustworthy information addressing critical infection control issues. In this review, we present the most signicant facts on the impact, benets, and drawbacks of using social networks during the COVID-19 pandemic .
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