The WHO Essential Medicines List Antibiotic Book:
Improving antibiotic AWaReness
( edition November 2021, 141 pages )

 

There is a clear need for simple resources to improve the quality of antibiotic prescribing globally. The Handbook was designed as a tool to make the WHO model Essential Medicines Lists for adults and children (EML and EMLc) of antibiotics more helpful to prescribers and to update the 5 previous WHO 2001 WHO Model Prescribing Information.

 

This publication provides guidance on the choice of antibiotic, dose, route of administration and duration of treatment for common infectious syndromes in alignment with the recommendations for antibiotics included on the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines and Essential Medicines for Children and the WHO AWaRe (Access-Watch-Reserve) classification of antibiotics.