According to the World Health Organization (2018), antimicrobial resistance (AMR)

and antibiotic resistance are serious threats to global health, security, development, and
prevention and treatment of an ever-increasing range of infections caused by bacteria,
viruses, fungi, and parasites. AMR is a serious threat to global public health, making it one of
the world’s most pressing public health problems, and needs to be averted with the help of all
government sectors and society. Another public health problem is the naturally occurring
antibiotic resistance, which accelerates the process when antibiotics are misused in both
humans and animals. Both of these are lethal since they are becoming harder to treat as the
antimicrobials and antibiotics used on them for treatment are becoming less effective. This
gave the researchers the idea to make antimicrobials and antibiotics from alternative sources
to help prevent infections from spreading and how these source materials are capable of being
used as medicine to cure diseases.
A collaboration between the Department of Health (DOH), World Health
Organization (WHO), Department of Agriculture (DA), World Organization for Animal
Health (OIE), and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) helped raise awareness on the
threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and encourage all government sectors to address
this problem. The effort to address the threat of AMR worldwide is fortified. With the
statement given by the Department of Health, the researchers were given the idea to help
control the spreading of diseases and regulate the usage of antibiotics.