The UK Prime Minister announced a Review on Antimicrobial Resistance in July, calling for ideas to bring this growing threat under control. In this first paper it is demonstrate that there could be profound health and macroeconomic consequences for the world, especially in emerging economies, if antimicrobial resistance is not tackled. The paper highlights that the attributable deaths due to AMR will continue to increase annually and in 2050 AMR will cause up to 10 million deaths that year alone, resulting in the total GDP loss of $100.2 trillion from now until 2050. Read more
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Results from the first transnational call
Antibiotic Awareness day 18 november 2014
IECID 2015, Inaugural Conference on the Impact of Environmental Changes on Infectious Diseases, Sitges, Spain, 23-25 March 2015
IECID 2015
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First International Who´s Who in One Health Webinar 10 November 2014
First International Who’s Who in One Health Webinar
This Webinar, to be held November 10, brings together noted One Health leaders,
advocates, professionals and students in real-time to discuss global One Health
efforts while providing a forum for dialogue within and across disciplines.
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Brainstorming Workshop for Implementation of the JPIAMR Strategic Research Agenda
JPIAMR invited selected scientific experts of antimicrobial resistance and representatives of national funding agencies to participate in a brainstorming workshop in Brussels October 9th and 10th. The objective was to provide a list of potential joint activities that could be included in the roadmap for implementation of the JPIAMR Strategic Research Agenda (SRA). Two independent groups of experts and funders discussed different subtopics of the six priorities Therapeutics, Diagnostics, Surveillance, Transmission, Environment and Intervention with the aim to generate suggestions for prioritized actions and instruments. The two groups agreed on a shortlist of themes for future calls and other actions that will be presented to the JPIAMR Management Board for future decisions.
The new Research Commissioner, Carlos Moedas, questioned about AMR research in Europe, click here for the hearing
3rd International One Health Congress, 15-18 2015, The Netherlands
The 3rd International One Health Congress brings science and policy together aiming at the early recognition and control of emerging (infectious) diseases, now and in the years to come.
CONGRESS THEME: PREVENTION AT THE SOURCE
Prevention at the source is key in controlling (infectious) diseases that have a growing impact on humans, animals and their ecosystems.
15-18 March 2015 | Amsterdam | The Netherlands
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JPIAMR active participant to the World Health Organization
JPIAMR has actively participated to the World Health Organization (WHO) consultation sent this summer to relevant organisations. The invitation was in order to contribute to their global action plan to combat antimicrobial resistance, which should be submitted to their sixty-eighth World Health Assembly in May 2015.
EC launch in 2015 of Prize on Diagnostics: “Reducing the Mis-use of Antibiotics Prize”
The EC will launch in 2015 a new €1 million prize on Diagnostics: “Reducing the Mis-use of Antibiotics Prize”. This Prize will reward a rapid test that can identify at the point of care patients with upper respiratory tract infections that can be managed safely without antibiotics.
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-14-492_en.htm
Simultaneously, the UK has announced a £10 million prize “The Longitude Prize 2014” for Antibiotics which will be launched 6 October 2014. The EC Horizon 2020 prize and the UK Longitude Prize are two different but complementary initiatives.
http://www.longitudeprize.org/
