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World AMR Awareness Week 2024 highlights the theme Educate. Advocate. Act now. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a pressing global health, environmental, and socioeconomic crisis, threatening human and animal health, food production, and ecosystems. Drug-resistant pathogens endanger lives worldwide, demanding urgent action. This year emphasizes educating stakeholders, advocating bold commitments, and taking concrete actions to combat AMR. With opportunities like the UNGA High-level Meeting on AMR, now is the time for political leadership and accountability. Together, we can fight AMR and secure our future. #WAAW2024 FAO World Health Organization United Nations

World AMR Awareness Week 2024 takes place this week, 18-24th November, a global campaign to raise awareness and understanding of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and to promote best practices to reduce the emergence and spread of drug-resistant infections. The theme for the World AMR Awareness Week (WAAW) 2024 is “Educate. Advocate. Act now.” This theme was chosen based on feedback from an online survey among stakeholders from the human, animal, plant, and environmental health sectors, which collected nearly 200 responses globally.

📢 Webinar: Moving from Evidence to Policy – Mitigating AMR Across One Health Sectors 📅 21st November 2024 ⏰ 14:00 CET Antimicrobial resistance (#AMR) is a global health challenge that spans human, animal, and environmental health sectors. Join ICARS in this #WAAW webinar to explore how intervention and implementation research can drive policy change in AMR. This session will cover:   ◾ Context-specific evidence – Why it’s crucial to inform AMR policy decisions 📌   ◾ Bridging the evidence-policy gap – How the ICARS model supports actionable research 🔍   ◾ Real-world examples – Insights from ICARS-supported projects in Benin, Georgia, and Kosovo 🌍   ◾ Key takeaways – Practical lessons on transforming evidence into impactful policy 💡 Don’t miss this chance to connect, ask questions, and learn how to close the evidence-to-policy gap in AMR. 👉 Register today: https://bit.ly/4hut4vk Victorien DOUGNON Marika Tsereteli Lul Raka Sujith J Chandy Rodolphe Mader #WorldAMRWeek #OneHealth #WAAW2024 

I'm proud to inform that the Norwegian government launched a new National One Health Strategy against Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) for 2024-2033 in September this year. https://lnkd.in/dE-JhVW6 AMR is recognized as one of the world's greatest health challenges, and the strategy aims to address this issue comprehensively over the next decade. The strategy emphasizes a One Health approach, integrating human, animal, plant, and environmental health sectors to combat AMR effectively. Key objectives include: - Improving antimicrobial prescribing practices. - Enhancing preventive measures to reduce infections in humans, animals, and plants. - Increasing public awareness and education about AMR, especially among children and youth. - Strengthening international cooperation to tackle AMR globally. The strategy also highlights the importance of research, innovation, and surveillance to develop effective interventions and maintain the efficacy of antimicrobial treatments for future generations. #AnimalHealth #OneHealth #VeterinærerKanEnHelse #AMR

Dr. Maneesh Paul. S., M. Sc., Ph.D., FIDSA., offers an important perspective on tackling #antimicrobialresistance (AMR) through the One Health approach, bridging human, animal, and environmental health. In this blog, Dr. Maneesh highlights the vital role of environmental surveillance in AMR detection, emphasizing how wastewater analysis and diagnostics can act as early warning systems for resistant microbes. He discusses the urgent need for a unified effort among clinicians, pharmacists, and communities to limit antibiotic misuse, especially in outpatient settings. Read here: https://lnkd.in/gwAMxvWj #AMRWeek2024 #Superbugs #AntibioticAwareness #FightAMR #AMRAwareness2024 #OneHealth #EnvironmentalSurveillance #AMR

▶️ The UK Health Security Agency announces categories for the 2025 'Antibiotic Guardian Shared Learning Awards'. ⏺️ "Diagnostic Stewardship: Entries should demonstrate effective use of diagnostics to reduce prescribing. ⏺️ "Prescribing and Stewardship: Entrants should demonstrate how the project has measured antimicrobial usage or improved prudent use of antimicrobials within the organisation. ⏺️ "Community Communications: Entry should highlight how staff or the organisation has promoted Antibiotic Guardian or stewardship within their community and should indicate the communication methods used to engage. ⏺️ "Public Engagement: Entries should demonstrate significant public engagement to tackle AMR. ⏺️ "Innovation and Technology: Entry should highlight how technology has enabled the promotion of antibiotic stewardship and should be able to demonstrate actual use of technology or innovation within their project with examples. ⏺️ "Infection Prevention and Control: Entries should demonstrate improvements in infection prevention and control practices or interventions to tackle AMR.   ⏺️ "Research: Entries should demonstrate how their entry has addressed a key aspect of antibiotic stewardship via a research programme or initiative. ⏺️ "Animal Health, Agriculture and Food Supply: Entries should demonstrate antibiotic stewardship in the agriculture and food sector. ⏺️ "Children & Family: Entries from campaigns that focused on children or individuals that have completed Junior/Family antibiotic guardian badges, e-bug activities or other antimicrobial resistance/infection prevention activities.   ⏺️ "Health Student of the Year: Healthcare students who have led initiatives around antibiotic awareness or Antibiotic Guardian should apply. ⏺️ "Multi-country collaborations and activities to tackle AMR: partnerships between more than one country in any area of AMR; performed by organisations. ⏺️ "NEW FOR 2024/25: Tackling Health Inequalities in AMR: This new category is for projects that seek to address health inequalities in AMR and antimicrobial use. ⏺️ "The Das Pillay Antimicrobial Stewardship Memorial Award: This award is to recognise innovation the field of antimicrobial stewardship at a junior level. The nomination may occur through others or through self-nomination. The award is open to junior doctors, nurses and pharmacists who have excelled in delivering antimicrobial stewardship quality improvement. We would welcome nominations from: Doctors up to Specialist Trainee Level, Nursing staff up to Band 7, Pharmacists up to band 7." #infectionprevention #infectioncontrol #IPC25 #AMR #antimicrobialresistance

World AMR Awareness Week 2024 highlights the theme Educate. Advocate. Act now. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a pressing global health, environmental, and socioeconomic crisis, threatening human and animal health, food production, and ecosystems. Drug-resistant pathogens endanger lives worldwide, demanding urgent action. This year emphasizes educating stakeholders, advocating bold commitments, and taking concrete actions to combat AMR. With opportunities like the UNGA High-level Meeting on AMR, now is the time for political leadership and accountability. Together, we can fight AMR and secure our future. #WAAW2024 FAO World Health Organization United Nations

Have you seen our #StoriesOfAMR booklet? It is a collection of people's experiences with #AMR from all 53 Member States of the European Region. Through their professional perspectives and personal experiences, they spotlight the dangers AMR poses to human, animal and environmental health. Their concerns, fears, hopes and actions underscore the critical need to preserve antimicrobials – the cornerstone of modern medicine that has saved millions of lives. Read and be inspired to educate, advocate and act now to prevent AMR: https://bit.ly/4f8T1yT #WAAW #WorldAMRAwarenessWeek

HOW CAN WE ASSESS THE RETURN ON ONE HEALTH INVESTMENT? 👉🏼 Join the Webinar on the status and implementation of One Health governance structures and approaches in Eastern and Southern Africa. Focus on One Health governance in Eastern and Southern Africa   🗓️ June 28 June 2024 🕰️ 13:00 - 14:00 (CEST),   ✨ Governance structures determine if policymaking is siloed or uses a joined-up One Health approach. Capacitating One Health in Eastern and Southern Africa ( COHESA) is expanding the use of One Health approaches in 12 countries focusing on governance, research and education, knowledge sharing and delivery. Implemented by national partners and supported by International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), and  CIRAD, baseline assessments have been conducted in each country to assess their current One Health status. This webinar is hosted by the Quadripartite-Powered Community of Practice (CoP) for the Return on Investment for One Health and One Health Investment Planning. World Health Organization FAO World Organisation for Animal Health UNEP-WCMC. 🗣️The panel brings together: Chadia Wannous, World Organisation for Animal Health, Knight-Jones Theodore, Margaret Karembu, Bibiana Iraki, Shauna Richards. #OneHealth Marisa Peyre zeev noga Emmanuelle Soubeyran Maria Van Kerkhove Prisca Mugabe Magda Robalo 👇🏽Register👇🏽

📢 Webinar: Moving from Evidence to Policy – Mitigating AMR Across One Health Sectors 📅 21st November 2024 ⏰ 14:00 CET Antimicrobial resistance (hashtag #AMR) is a global health challenge that spans human, animal, and environmental health sectors. Join ICARS in this hashtag #WAAW webinar to explore how intervention and implementation research can drive policy change in AMR. This session will cover: ◾ Context-specific evidence – Why it’s crucial to inform AMR policy decisions 📌 ◾ Bridging the evidence-policy gap – How the ICARS model supports actionable research 🔍 ◾ Real-world examples – Insights from ICARS-supported projects in Benin, Georgia, and Kosovo 🌍 ◾ Key takeaways – Practical lessons on transforming evidence into impactful policy 💡 Don’t miss this chance to connect, ask questions, and learn how to close the evidence-to-policy gap in AMR. 👉 Register today: https://bit.ly/4hut4vk Victorien DOUGNON Marika Tsereteli Lul Raka Sujith J Chandy Rodolphe Mader hashtag #WorldAMRWeek hashtag #OneHealth hashtag #WAAW2024