In September 2016, the United Nations General Assembly in its  'Political declaration of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on antimicrobial resistance' called upon the WHO, together with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), to finalize a global development and stewardship framework.

As mandated in WHA68.7, the framework will support the development, control, distribution and appropriate use of new antimicrobial medicines, diagnostic tools, vaccines and other interventions, while preserving existing antimicrobial medicines, and promoting affordable access to existing and new antimicrobial medicines and diagnostic tools, taking into account the needs of all countries and in line with the Global Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance.