At a glance
- Be Antibiotics Aware aims to improve antibiotic prescribing and use among target consumer and healthcare professional audiences to protect patient safety and combat antimicrobial resistance.
- Share social media graphics, videos, and PSAs to your organization’s social media accounts and websites.
Social media visuals
Post and share these graphics with our sample messages on your social media channels, and on your blogs and websites.
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This graphic provides the percentage of people truly penicillin allergic.
This graphic highlights the burden of antimicrobial-resistant infections in the U.S.
This graphic reminds patients that antibiotics do not work for seasonal allergies.
1st panel of 2-panel graphic that shows the side effects of antibiotics.
2nd panel of 2-panel graphic that shows the side effects of antibiotics.
This graphic shows the importance of improving outpatient antibiotic use.
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This graphic describes common respiratory infections and whether antibiotics are or are not needed.
This graphic provides the percentage of people truly penicillin allergic.
This graphic highlights common respiratory illnesses not cured by antibiotics.
This graphic shows a multidisciplinary healthcare team enhancing antibiotic awareness.
This graphic describes how pharmacists can Be Antibiotics Aware across different healthcare settings.
Explore and visualize data on antibiotic use and stewardship through the Patient Safety Portal.
This graphic reminds patients that antibiotics do not work for seasonal allergies.
Video & animation for social media
Post and share these animations on your social media channels.
This animation explains that antibiotics do not treat colds or Flu.
This animation explains what antibiotics treat and won’t treat.
This video describes what infections do and do not treat.
This video describes how antimicrobial resistance occurs.
Web images
Post and share these web-ready graphics on your blog and websites.
This graphic highlights the multidisciplinary healthcare team that participate in USAAW.
Infographics
Share these graphics using social media, add to e-newsletters, use in presentations and post to blogs and websites.
This graphic highlights common respiratory illnesses for which antibiotics are not needed.
This graphic highlights that antibiotics are not needed for common cold.
This graphic highlights that antibiotics are not needed for most chest colds or bronchitis.
This graphic highlights that antibiotics are not needed to treat flu.
This graphic highlights that antibiotics are not needed for COVID-19 infection.
This infographic informs patients that an antibiotic is and is not needed to treat their infection.
This infographic explains the process of antimicrobial resistance.
This infographic highlights common side effects of antibiotics.
This infographic explains how patients can feel better without antibiotics.
This infographic shows an overview of how antibiotic resistance happens.
When antibiotics aren't needed, they won't help you, and the side effects could cause harm.
Anytime antibiotics are prescribed, they can cause adverse events.
Public service announcements
Share these PSAs to spread the word about Be Antibiotics Aware by using antibiotics only when needed. Post them to your social media pages, add the link to your blog post, or play it in waiting rooms. The PSAs are free to use on any communications channel and also available in Spanish.