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WHAT IF ANTIBIOTICS STOP WORKING?

ReAct congratulates the organisers of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland for including an open discussion on the future of antibiotics at their annual event this year. The session ‘What if All Known Antibiotics Lost Their Effectiveness?’, to be held on 27 January 2012, is a timely recognition of the risk that bacterial resistance to antibiotics poses to the future of human health. “There is an urgent need to make the impact of antibiotic resistance and the urgent need for research and development of new antibiotics more visible to policy makers and the public,’ says Prof. Otto Cars, Executive Director of ReAct. “However, it is essential that any new antibiotics are made globally accessible and affordable”, he adds.

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ICIUM 2011 REVISITED

Presentations from plenaries and sessions at the Third International Conference for Improving Use of Medicines (ICIUM) held in Antalya, Turkey on October 14-18 2011 are now available. More than 500 research projects conducted since ICIUM 2004 were presented and the conference with the focus  to deliver Informed Strategies, Effective Policies and Lasting Solutions . Several delegates from ReAct participated in the event that gathered over 600 experts from over 70 countries.

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FDA ANNOUNCES NEW RESTRICTIONS ON ANTIBIOTICS

On January 4, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an order that prohibits certain use of the cephalosporin class of antimicrobial drugs in cattle, swine, chickens and turkeys effective April 5, 2012. But just before, on December 22nd, they withdrew a long-held plan to regulate antibiotics in livestock feed.

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SEASON`S GREETINGS

With some selected headlines from the ReAct - Action on Antibiotic Resistance news archive we would like to thank all of our collaborators for a fruitful 2011 within the working field of antibiotic resistance. See you again in 2012.

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Resistance in the News

RESISTANCE IN THE NEWS

25 JAN 2012

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ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE - CAUSES AND EFFECTS

A fact sheet about the origins
of antibiotic resistance.

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QUALITATIVE STUDY ON ANTIBIOTIC KNOWLEDGE AMONG VILLAGERS IN CHINA


ReAct summary and comments on an exploratory study by Chenggang Jin, Adrian Ely et al., published online in Health, Risk & Society in August 2011.

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