Excessive antibiotic prescriptions for children in low-, middle-income countries
Monday, December 16, 2019 - 16:40
in Health & Medicine
Between 2007 and 2017, children in eight low- and middle-income countries received, on average, 25 antibiotic prescriptions from birth through age 5 -- up to five times higher than the already high levels observed in high-income settings. The number of antibiotic prescriptions for young children ranged from one per year for children in Senegal to 12 per year for children in Uganda.