ReAct - Action on Antibiotic Resistance

Exciting news coming from ReAct Africa! Are you a young person looking to creatively address #AMR #AntibioticResistance? Tomorrow Friday ReAct Africa is launching a physical hub for the Youth! ⭐️🥳 💻The event will be live-streamed if you can't make it to Lusaka, Zambia!

🇪🇺 On Tuesday Helle Aagaard represented ReAct, we were pleased to provide our perspectives on what the newly established committee on health (SANT) in the European parliament should prioritize over the coming 4 years. 💊🦠We emphasized the importance of keeping #AntibioticResistance high on the political agenda, increasing European action, and to not forget the global outlook in their work to ensure more equitable access to medicines and healthcare. 🏥 🙏🏾Thank you Member of the European Parliament Tilly Metz for inviting ReAct, and for launching bold yet concrete ideas in your whitepaper for what the Committee should achieve.

🌍 During #WAAW, the Matero community in Zambia took action on #AMR #AntibioticResistance through creative community engagement. 🎭 A team trained by ReAct Africa performed a skit at their church, reaching 1,500+ persons with crucial messages about antimicrobial misuse and overuse. 💡 Their efforts continue to inspire long-term change in health practices, reminding us that community-driven solutions are key to tackling global health challenges. 📖 Learn more 👇🏾 https://lnkd.in/dKf-BM8E #CommunityEngagement #HealthAwareness #AntimicrobialResistance

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And that’s a wrap! The “New Conceptions of AMR” conference spotlighted four social science approaches to tackling the problem of antimicrobial resistance (AMR): • Collective action problems: AMR is a social challenge created by actors with competing interests and insufficient incentives to cooperate. ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gMWdvJJh • Urban political ecology: urbanization, environmental degradation, global health threats, and climate change as interconnected problems for AMR. ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gHfBs5vu • AMR as infrastructure: antimicrobials are part of invisible infrastructure, routinely used as integral parts of modern food systems, land-use practices, clinical medicine, and public health. ➡️ https://lnkd.in/g6rV9HXc • Socio-ecological dynamics: AMR requires robust institutions to manage the dynamic co-evolution of human societies and invisible microbial ecologies. ➡️   https://lnkd.in/gCwHJTAc As Quadripartite agencies and countries begin to develop a new Global Action Plan (GAP) on AMR by 2026, this meeting brought together leading social scientists to explore ways these New Conceptions can present opportunities for advancing policy change. Thank you to all attendees for the valuable conversations. We also want to thank the Wellcome Trust for providing a beautiful venue for deep thinking and collaboration. SSHRC-CRSH, Raphael de Souza Aguiar, Pedro Henrique D. Batista, Susan Nayiga, Nguyen Thi Hong Yen, Iruka Okeke, Emmanuel Olamijuwon, Kevin Outterson, Tarra L Penney, Julianne Piper, Mathieu JP Poirier, Jaskeerat Singh, Srinivasa Reddy Srigiri, Kayla Strong, JS Thakur, Kednapa Thavorn, Dr. Laura Valtere LLM. Eur, Maarten van der Heijden, A.M. Viens, Tracey Wagner-Rizvi, Isaac Weldon, Clare Wenham, Mary Wiktorowicz, Geneviève Boily-Larouche, PhD, PG Cert, Daniel Carelli, Clare Chandler, Carly Ching, Daniela Corno, Fiona Emdin, Patrick Fafard, Alyssa Grant, Steven Hoffman, Roger Keil, Sinead Mathias, Yasmin Jones, Sonia Lewycka, Professor Kathy Liddell, Rebecca Manaley, Clare McGall, Janet Midega, PhD, Prof. Timo Minssen, Ilaria Natali.

#DYK antimicrobial resistance #AMR is increasingly becoming a threat in hospitals and other healthcare settings? 🏥 Join our webinar next week to learn how Europe is tackling AMR for safer healthcare and healthier communities. Register here: https://bit.ly/3E632PT 🗓️ Wednesday, 29 January 2025 🕕 10.00-11.30 am CET The webinar is co-hosted by EU Health and Food Safety as part of a project with #EU4Health funding. EU-JAMRAI / European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) / EU Health and Food Safety

🚨 We need bold actions! Antibiotics are the cornerstone of modern medicine, but what happens if they stop working? 4 Swedish experts are sounding the alarm in the Swedish magazine Läkemedelsvärlden – LmV today, calling for urgent improvements to antibiotic policy in Sweden and globally. 🌍 💊 Otto Cars Nina Viberg Anna Zorzet Daniel Carelli 🦠 Rising antibiotic resistance is a growing threat to public health, and it demands immediate action from policymakers. The article highlights the need to prioritize research, stronger governance and accountability, and international cooperation to safeguard these life-saving medicines for future generations. 🛑 It's time to stop taking antibiotics for granted and start investing in solutions to address resistance. Full article in comments (in Swedish)! #AntibioticResistance #HealthPolicy #PublicHealth

Preventing infections 👇🏾 ↘️ Reduces the number of infections ↘️ Cuts the need for antibiotics ↘️ Reduces the spread of resistant bacteria ↗️ Makes people and animals healthier How can the ReAct Toolbox help you? 👇🏾 You find 3 sections with practical steps how to improve infection prevention and strategies for: 1⃣ Health care 2⃣ Food animal 3⃣ And inspirational examples! Find link to the #ReActToolbox section Prevent Infections in comments. 🙂

WHO AMR Resource Pack 2025 Edition - Now available! https://lnkd.in/espXadgv The 2025 AMR Resource Pack provides useful resources for the development and implementation of national action plans (NAPs) on AMR.

"If we were able to contain antimicrobial resistance in a country like India, we would have taken care 1/5 of the world’s problem." Kamini Walia Recently, GARDP and the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) (ICMR) hosted an event on strengthening appropriate antibiotic access in India. The event brought together eminent stakeholders working in the AMR space in India, including clinicians, regulators & policy makers, global funders, biotech innovators, and pharmaceutical manufacturers. “India has all the ingredients for a vibrant AMR landscape. The whole narrative that India is the hotspot of AMR can be truly turned into India as the hotbed of innovation for AMR." Anand Anandkumar Read more about the event in the meeting report: https://lnkd.in/du7RVqvE #AntimicrobialResistance #India #Innovation #AMR #PowerOfAntibiotics