ReAct Activities
2009
June 17 - 19, National seminar on infectious diseases.
ReAct Latin America and the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the University of Cuenca, invites to a national seminar on infectious diseases; diagnostics, treatment and rational use of antibiotics.
Read more in the newsletter from RLA (spanish)
Interview on UNISON Televisión with Javier Peralta, ReAct Latin America (spanish)
May 20, Launch of the EPN/ReAct Fight AMR campaign at the WHA in Geneva.
Meeting bringing together Country Delegates, WHO staff and Civil society, addressing the critical need of leadership and action to contain AMR.
Presentations and photos from the meeting
Download press release (pdf 74 KB)
April 28, China and Sweden in high level conference on Antibiotic Resistance
ReAct participating in meeting between Chinese and Swedish health ministers and experts to work out a collaboration plan to meet the challenge of antibiotic resistance.
Read more and watch pictures from the meeting in Beijing on April 28
Watch video clips from the meeting
April, Release of "The Cuenca Declaration- A global call to action to contain antibacterial resistance"
ReAct Latin America presenting the outcomes from the international meeting in Cuenca in June 2008.
Download booklet in english
Download booklet in spanish
Read more about ReAct Latin America
March 6, ReAct Latin America signs agreement with PAHO Ecuador. Jaime Astudillo, rector of the University of Cuenca; Arturo Quizhpe coordinator of ReAct Latinoamérica and Jorge Prosperi, representative of the PAHO in Ecuador, signed the agreement at a special ceremony.
Read more in the newsletter from ReAct Latin America (spanish only)
Watch the video from the ceremony on YouTube (spanish only)
Januari, New design of the ReAct publications on the Burden of Antibiotic Resistance, that had been revised during autumn 2008. The series now also contains "Burden of Antibiotic Resistance on Women´s Health"
Download our fact sheets here
2008
December 5 - 9, Microbes and Metaphors, re-imaging bacteria, infection and the body.
A dialogue between scientists and artists at Wee Jasper, Australia.
Download summary with photos and quotes from the participants
November 9 - 14, Antimicrobial Resistance Workshop in Moshi, Tanzania.
Organized by ReAct partner, Ecumenical Pharmaceutical Network (EPN).
Read the full meeting report and the Moshi declaration, one of the key outputs from the meeting
More info about WPN; www.epnetwork.org
September 19, Onlince article by ReAct published in British Medical Journal. Analysis: "Meeting the challenge of antibiotic resistance".
Read the article and watch the video on bmj.com
Download the article as PDF-file (200KB)
June 9 - 13, International Seminar & Workshop in Cuenca, Ecuador.
ReAct Latin America in collaboration with PAHO and the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the University of Cuenca and the Pan-American Health Organisation (PAHO), summoned America and other continents to in an International Workshop and Seminar treating antibiotic resistance, infectious diseases, solidarity and the Ecossystems.
Summary report and photos from varous events
May 19 - 24, ReAct at the 61th WHA in Geneva.
Following up on our activities in 2007, ReAct was attending the World Health Assembly (WHA) again this year. Relationships with friends and partners from the World Health Organisation (WHO), Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs) and other health organisations were strengthened, and new contacts were made with the World Health Professions Alliance (WHPA) and the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), to mention some.
Read more here
March 30, Minireview on behalf of React published in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
The clinical and economic impact of multiresistant Gramnegative bacteria.
Download the review here
March 26, New subtopic on Antibiotic Resistance launched on SciDevNet
With the support of ReAct, a new subtopic on Antibiotic Resistance was launched on the 26th of March on the SciDevNet website. The antibiotic resistance subtopic includes feature articles, opinion pieces, and briefs on policy solutions to resistance, all with an emphasis in the developing world.
Read more about the new subtopic
Link to SciDevNet/Antibiotic Resistance
2007
ReAct present at the 60th WHA, World Health Assembly in Geneva, 14 to 23 May 2007
Summary report of the ReAct activities at the 60th World Health Assembly
During the WHA, resolution WHA58.27, "Improving the containment of antimicrobial resistance" was reported back by WHO.
- WHA58.27 (pdf, 95kb)
- WHO, progress report on WHA58.27 (pdf, 21kb)
- ReAct, response to the WHO progress report (pdf 110kb)
Report from WHA
2007-05-21 The Assembly received the report of about progress achieved in implementing the resolution on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) during the past two years
Read more in this summary report (pdf 12kb)
2007-05-22 RUM resolution B120_R12-en (pdf) approved !
Read more in this report, (pdf 16kB)
2007-05-15 Call for Rational Use of Medicines
Joint NGO briefing
Report from meeting (pdf 12kb)
2007-05-18 Cure with care
A booklet about understandingantibiotic resistance
The booklet is distributed by ReAct at the WHA.
Cure with care (pdf 2,96 Mb)
Facts sheets about the Burden of resistance:
- Economic aspects of Antibiotic Resistance
- Burden of Resistance to Multi-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacilli (MRGN)
- Burden of Resistance to Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Lecture at IMCH, Uppsala University, October 9, 2007
Clinical Impact of Antimicrobial Resistance in Pediatric Bloodstream Infections in Tanzani
April 2007, Consumer organisations and networks, master thesis
Consumer organisations and networks, globally, what do they know about antibiotic resistance and are they at all interested to work within this field? This is what a student researcher, performing a master thesis at ReAct has strived to find out by intreviewing numerous consumer organisations. Read more about her findings.
Consumer networks and organizations, potential key actors to raise the awarness of antibiotic resistance (pdf 562kB)
March 2007, ReAct Latin America established!
Everything is now settled with the agreement between ReAct and the University of Cuenca. The cooperation is initiated with the aim to build a ReAct network in Latin America ( RLA ) to raise awareness and to stimulate social and political action on antibiotic resistance and the effective prevention and treatment of infectious diseases. The ReAct network in Latin America will be established as a base, building on existing networks working with health and social issues and will stimulate an ongoing process of activities, education and research to achieve a comprehensive concept of health in the region. Arturo Quizhpe Peralta, will be the director of the project.
25 January 2007, ReAct fact sheet, for support of a new strong, RUM, Rational Use of Medicines resolution.
On the 25th of January ReAct distributed 2 fact sheets to the WHO Executive Board meeting delegates to support a strong RUM resolution and reporting back of the antimicrobial resistance resolution WHA58.27 at WHA in Geneva, May 2007.
Download 1 page fact sheet here as pdf
Download 4 pages fact sheet here as pdf
2006
27 November 2006, Hindustan times highlights antibiotic resistance in series of articles.
"Antibiotic Indulgence, Misuse of a Miracle"
"Frame guidelines for hospitals"
"Only two novel classes of drugs in 30 years"
19-21 September 2006, WhatNext forum, Uppsala castle, arranged by the Dag Hammarskjölds foundation.
ReAct headed a session called the Tao of antibiotic resistance.
Poster for session.
Brussels, 7-9 June 2006, European Commission DG Research & ReAct arranged a workshop on International collaboration on antibiotic resistance, specifically the burden of resistance.
1-4 april 2006, ECCMID, European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Nice, France
ReAct had Activities in relation to the conference and displayed its first poster in the Network corner of ESCMID.
Poster for the Network corner
2005
December 2005, The Antibiotic Innovation Study: Expert Voices on a Critical Need In a report published on the 12th of December 2005, public health and industry experts conclude that urgent action is needed to tackle the lack of research and development into new antibiotics.
DOWNLOAD PRESS-RELEASE, english (pdf)
DOWNLOAD PRESS-RELEASE, swedish (pdf)
DOWNLOAD THE STUDY (pdf)
September 14-17, 2005, Uppsala Sweden, A seminar on the growing threat of antibiotic resistance
Download press release
For more information, click here
May 25, 2005, The World Health Assembly adopted a resolution on antimicrobial resistance (WHA 58.27)
Download the resolution here
2004
November 2004, The WHO project "Priority Medicines for Europe and the World-A Public Health Approach to Innovation" identifies antibacterial drug resistance as a prioritized area
Link to project site
Background document on Antibacterial Drug Resistance
May 2004, Uppsala, Sweden, ReAct gathered individuals from all continents with a range backgrounds at the Dag Hammarskjöld Centre in Uppsala to explore why the discussions held so far have to such a limited extent gone beyond the conference rooms.
Read more:
Press release May 2004
Moving towards Concerted Action - Summary report from the meeting
Exploring roads towards concerted action; The misuse of the miracle

