DTE Coverage: World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2023

DTE Coverage: World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2023

Antimicrobial resistance remains an ever-present danger for humanity

AMR Awareness Week: How colistin went from 'holy water' in medicine to 'sewage' of resistance


More research is needed to find out the long-term effects of using colistin on humans
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AMR Awareness Week: US FDA is too close to meat and drug industries when it comes to protecting public health


FDA has helped to create antibiotic-intensive livestock system of US
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AMR Awareness Week: The link with climate change, water & why we need to incentivise measures against antimicrobial resistance


Many countries now have national AMR action plans, but implementation remains vastly different
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AMR Awareness Week: Educating teachers and students on antimicrobial use, resistance


Educating children on antimicrobial use instils responsible habits and attitudes early on, shaping the behaviour of future patients and caregivers
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AMR Awareness Week: FAO’s biosecurity protocol can help create healthy farms with less antibiotic use


The three-zone biosecurity initiative by FAO was originally launched in 2013 to contain avian flu outbreaks
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AMR Awareness Week: Tackling antimicrobial resistance in agrifood systems through a One Health approach


Adopting a whole-of-society and multi-sectoral approach is essential to address AMR effectively
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AMR Awareness Week: Antimicrobial research and development needs greater push through policies


We need policies to reward R&D, bring products to market and ensure equitable access and prudent use
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AMR Awareness Week: Kerala’s AMR committees & literacy campaigns example of participatory antimicrobial stewardship


A hub-and-spoke model of AMR surveillance has been initiated in almost all districts
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AMR Awareness Week: Subscription-based economic model can help unblock pipeline for new antibiotics


At present, drug development is only profitable if combination of prices and sales volumes is sufficiently high
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AMR Awareness Week: Public health needs to be bottom line


New antibiotic research & development model required to ensure people most in need get access to right drugs
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AMR Awareness Week: Tackling antimicrobial resistance is a critical global function


There are many advantages to using a global functions framework rather than just the narrow public goods framework
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AMR Awareness Week: Combating AMR in European Union through a One Health approach


Today, one in five bacterial infections in Europe is caused by a pathogen that is resistant to antibiotics
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AMR Awareness Week: Innovation in antibiotics research and development is urgently needed


There should be a movement to treat AMR as a national issue, pass policies and fund innovation. Such efforts would then have a cascading effect and allow funding to pour in from private investors
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AMR Awareness Week: Way forward for pharma companies to ensure antibiotics manufacturing doesn’t drive resistance


The risk of AMR posed by the release of antibiotic manufacturing waste can be prevented
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AMR Awareness Week: Natural livestock farming effective bottom-up approach to reduce antibiotic use in dairy sector


Crisis with AMR obliges dairy sector to look beyond maximising cattle productivity and focus on both milk quantity, quality
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AMR Awareness Week: Behavioural, organisational and environmental aspects are vital for containing resistance


Problem underpinned by complex drivers and behaviours; multisectoral and multidimensional efforts required
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AMR Awareness Week: Pharma must rise to the challenge as stewards of public health


Being in the pharmaceutical field, the mantle of responsibility falls upon us to forge ahead in the relentless pursuit of solutions to the daunting challenge of AMR
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India poised to advance in antibiotic development: VS Chauhan & Nitin Yadav


CSE-DTE speak to Virander S Chauhan and Nitin Yadav, co-founders of Biotide Solutions LLP, about the global AMR scenario
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