General Recommendations:
Antimicrobial medicines are the most over-used class of medicines worldwide
including Zimbabwe. It has become a global concern that we are reaching the
post-antibiotic era where common bacterial infections are no longer treatable
with common antibiotics. Apart from the unnecessary cost and risk to the
patient, overuse encourages development of resistant organisms, a problem
that has proven serious and expensive in many countries. In many cases anti-
microbial medicines are given “blindly” or “em