Category ANTIBIOTIC

ANTIBIOTIC

World AMR Awereness Week 2023

WORLD AMR AWARENES WEEK – 2023 Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites no longer respond to antimicrobial agents. As a result of drug resistance, antibiotics and other antimicrobial agents become ineffective and infections become difficult or…

The GAR Foundation

Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) happens when microorganisms change overtime and no longer respond to medicine that were previously designed to kill them. AMR is now the leading cause of deaths globally where in 2019, more than 1 million deaths were attributed…

Antimicrobial Stewardship Program

WHO has listed Antimicrobial Resistance among the top 10 global health threats facing humanity. Based on recent evidences in the year 2019, approximately 1.27 million deaths were directly linked to infections with resistance to drugs on a worldwide scale. By the…

World AMR Awareness Week 2022

World AMR Awareness Week Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is among the top ten threats facing humanity and human activities are the major drivers of this process. The quadripartite – the World Health Organization (WHO), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the…

30 DAYS OF ANTIBIOTIC STEWARDSHIP IN RWANDA

Background Antimicrobial resistance, (AMR) which includes antibiotic resistance, is not a commonly crossed topic  in Rwanda, despite being a crucial topic which concerns keeping antibiotics working whenever needed.  Together with the University of Manchester, we organized the 30 Days of…