"The wide and indiscriminate use of common anti-infective drugs has contributed substantially to the persistence of infections, as a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Multidrug resistant bacteria especially have emerged as a major health problem all over the world. Resistance poses a growing threat to the treatment and control of endemic, epidemic-prone as well as pandemic diseases. Resistance in microorganisms costs money, livelihood and lives and threatens to undermine the effectiveness of health delivery programmes even in developed countries. However, developing countries are hit hard with increasing reports of development of resistance to drugs commonly used to treat most of the communicable diseases. The emerging threat of resistance in malaria, tuberculosis (TB) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is a huge impediment in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015...."