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ASHA focuses to address the gap of data, and carry out advocacy and awareness of existing policy and strategy regarding NCDs and prevention of preventable diseases.
Many disease outbreaks are occurring throughout the world as a result of emerging and re-emerging infectious agents, and the fast modes at which organisms move from place to place are a threat to economies. To cope with the situation, laboratories in health facilities, including health centers in urban areas with high population densities have to play a special role in reducing risks, containing emergencies and responding to outbreaks; laboratory results are a component in 70% of clinical decisions. ASHA’s role focus on the advocacy to strengthen public health laboratory systems.
ASHA focusses on Public awareness with regard to use of antibiotics in animal husbandry and agriculture to protect our environment, research and innovation increased knowledge and innovative tools to better understand resistance, support the coordination of multi-disciplinary approach to address health risks that originate at the animal-human-ecosystems interface, develop capacity for surveillance and monitoring of antimicrobial resistance and antimicrobial use in food and agriculture and promote good practices in food and agriculture systems and the prudent use of antimicrobials.
