Last year, During the World Antimicrobial Awareness Week, I had the great honor to organize Sudan's First National Antimicrobial Resistance Symposium. The 3-day event was sponsored by the Microbiology Society and hosted by MicroGen, assembling more than 300 participants comprising researchers, medical professionals, policy makers, and students to address a pressing global health crisis.
AMR threatens the effectiveness of antibiotics, antivirals, antifungals, and antiprotozoals-all so essential for treatment of infections, surgeries, and management of chronic diseases. As resistance rises across these classes, our capacity to treat common infections and keep complex health conditions in check diminishes, threatening global health systems and advances.
This event was an opportunity needed to address AMR in Sudan and other similar settings through multi-disciplinary collaboration in presenting innovative solutions to this growing problem.
I am deeply grateful to the incredible team that worked tirelessly behind the scenes to make this symposium possible. I would also like to thank the speakers for sharing their knowledge, which sparked very important discussions that spurred us into action, and the Microbiology Society, which sponsored this event and continues to support the advancement of AMR awareness and research. Your contributions are invaluable, and without them, this event would not have been as successful.
The symposium and its key discussions, strategies, and outcomes are featured on the Microbiology Society website in a blog.
[Read the full blog here for more insight into the event and how it fared!] https://lnkd.in/gt6rzffg
