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19/11/2025

19/11/2025

Alamin ang tama. Bantayan ang paggamit. Kumilos para sa kaligtasan ng lahat.

AMR FACTS (Philippines):

13,000 deaths yearly due to AMR.

43% ng E. coli ay resistant to common antibiotics.

31–66% ng mga Pilipino ay nagse-self-medicate—isang malaking driver ng AMR.

Let’s fight AMR together.

19/11/2025

PATIENT EDUCATION REMINDER: Why You Must Finish Your Antibiotics

Even if you start to feel better, it’s very important to complete your full course of antibiotics exactly as prescribed. Here’s why:

1️⃣ To fully treat your infection

Your symptoms may improve, but some bacteria are still alive. Stopping early allows the infection to come back.

2️⃣ To prevent antibiotic resistance

If you don’t finish your medication, the remaining bacteria can become stronger and learn to resist the antibiotic. This makes future infections harder and more expensive to treat.

3️⃣ To avoid complications

Incomplete treatment can lead to more serious or long-lasting illness.

Source: World Health Organization

19/11/2025

FAST FACTS ABOUT ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE (AMR)
1. Incomplete doses = stronger bacteria.
Stopping antibiotics early allows surviving bacteria to mutate and become resistant.

2. New antibiotics are rare.
Pharmaceutical companies are producing fewer new antibiotics, while resistance grows — kaya critical ang tamang paggamit.

3. AMR affects everyone — rich or poor, young or old.
Anyone can get an antibiotic-resistant infection. Prevention is key.

4. Pharmacists play a leading role.
Pharmacists are the most accessible healthcare professionals in the Philippines and are the first line of defense against misuse.

Source: World Health Organization

12/07/2025

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12/12/2023

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Drugs like antibiotics is a double-edged sword. It can heal, yes. But it can also kill. Especially if taken indiscriminately, without doctor's advice. Maybe not right away but eventually. So, do not get hurt or angry when the pharmacist would not give antibiotics without the correct prescription from your doctor.

11/12/2023

Keep on keeping on, ka-Pharma.

Happy Pharmacy Week! ⚕️💊

CPhAD joins in the week-long celebration of the PPhA Pharmacy Week from December 11 - 16, 2023 with the theme:
”Filipino Pharmacists: The Caring Medication Experts Embracing Education’s Role in Quality Healthcare”.

04/12/2023

The Department of Health (DOH) is on guard against a pathogen called mycoplasma pneumoniae following a rise in cases of pneumonia in the country. https://bitly.ws/33XQD

04/12/2023