Consideration of antibacterial medicines as part of the revisions to 2019 WHO Model List of Essential Medicines for adults (EML) and Model List of Essential Medicines for children (EMLc): Section 6.2 Antibacterials - including Access, Watch and Reserve Lists of antibiotics

This Summary reports the recommendations made by the 2019 WHO Expert Committee on the Selection and Use of Essential Medicines for Section 6.2 antibacterials, describes the deliberations of the EML Antibiotics Working Group, outlines changes to the Access, Watch and Reserve (AWaRe) classification of antibiotics and reports the list of discouraged antibiotics.