Communicable Disease Control Program, Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS)

The Communicable Disease Control (CDC) program under the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) in Bangladesh is dedicated to safeguarding public health through the prevention, surveillance, and management of communicable diseases. Operating under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the CDC employs a comprehensive approach encompassing antimicrobial resistance (AMR) containment, infection prevention and control (IPC), antimicrobial stewardship (AMS), and the One Health framework.

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National Standard Treatment Guideline's Mobile App

The AMR mHealth application offers a range of features and functionalities designed to enhance the management of AMR in common infectious diseases. By leveraging real-time data collection and analysis, clinicians can access crucial information on the prevalence of infectious diseases, the burden they impose on the population, and the most appropriate antibiotic treatments based on their susceptibility to AMR.

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Standard Treatment Guidelines (STG) on Antibiotic Use in Common Infectious Diseases of Bangladesh

Antibiotic Resistance is a growing global public health threat that is imposing serious effects on management of the infectious diseases. The World Health Organization (WHO) and other international bodies identified antibiotic resistance as the biggest emerging threat for the globe, another pandemic. A National Strategy for Antimicrobial Resistance Containment (ARC) in Bangladesh was developed and approved by the National Steering Committee (NSC) and the National Technical Committee (NTC) with further recommendation of developing a National Action Plan (NAP). The causative microbes of common infectious diseases of Bangladesh are resistant to antibiotics, which include acute respiratory infection (ARI), gastrointestinal infection, tuberculosis (TB), urinary tract infections (UTI), neonatal infections (sepsis), ear infections (otitis media), typhoid fever, and skin & soft tissue infections (SSTIs). Due to lack of standard culture facility, diagnosis and treatment of common infections are mostly empirical. Consequently, the information that we need to design evidence-based intervention to contain antibiotic resistance is currently unavailable in Bangladesh. On this backdrop, Bangladesh has planned to develop a national standard treatment guideline for use of antibiotic.