Summary
Good judgement and prudence on the part of the medical profession is the key to using antimicrobials to treat infectious diseases. Education, correct diagnosis, proper use of laboratory medicine, bacterial isolation, antimicrobial susceptibility all need to accompany the use of antimicrobials.
Analysis
It would be counterproductive to impose a strict drug act on developing countries because they would discourage the use of antimicrobials and morbidity and mortality would rise.
The veterinary profession in the USA has been under pressure from various "antibiotic resistance" groups for the past two or three decades to decrease the use of antimicrobials in animals because of fear that resistant bacteria cross over from animal to man. Although, this premiss is still being debated, the profession adopted a "judicious use of antimicrobial" that among other parameters, assures a proper client to doctor relationship and use of adequate diagnosis and antimicrobial susceptibility testing.
