Les antibiotiques, c'est pas automatique
Also: Antibiotics Are Not Automatic · Keep Antibiotics Working (France)
“Les antibiotiques, c'est pas automatique.”
French national health insurance (CNAMTS) campaign launched in 2002 under the government's 'Keep Antibiotics Working' plan, telling the public, especially parents, that antibiotics do not cure viral infections.
- Years
- 2002–now
- Country
- France
- Topic
- Infectious disease
- Asks people to
- Stop
- Strategy
- Coined termSimple instruction
- Channel
- Clinical settingPrintTV
- Audience
- CliniciansGeneral publicParents
Evidence
Quasi-experimentalPositive
National prescription data 2002-2007 adjusted for flu-like illness (Sabuncu 2009): antibiotic prescriptions per 100 people fell 26.5% over 5 years, in all 22 regions, and 35.8% among children aged 6-15. Public knowledge about antibiotics was reassessed two decades later (2025).
Sponsor (who paid)
- Caisse nationale de l'assurance maladie (CNAMTS) Foreign government, funder and creator
Credits (who made it)
Not recorded yet.
Related campaigns
- Be Antibiotics Aware 2017–now
- Get Smart Colorado 2002–2003
Sources
- Sabuncu E et al. Significant reduction of antibiotic use in the community after a nationwide campaign in France, 2002-2007. PLoS Med 2009;6(6):e1000084 evaluation · 2009 · DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000084 · PMID 19492093
- Lanoix JP. Knowledge of the French public on antibiotics: where do we stand, twenty years after the celebrated public health campaign "Antibiotics are not Automatic"?. Infect Dis Now 2025;55(8):105175 evaluation · 2025 · DOI 10.1016/j.idnow.2025.105175 · PMID 41429713
Research notes
Created 2026-10-22 by literature mining (PubMed/OpenAlex); evidence level, outcome and findings are paraphrased from the evaluation abstracts, full texts not read. No credits: no page naming an agency was checked.
Record cases/fr-antibiotics-not-automatic.json, updated 2026-10-22· Link to this campaign