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