WORLD HEALTH DAY APRIL 7, 2011

- SAVE THE PILL FOR THE REALLY ILL

 

 

HIGHLIGHTS FROM ReAct NETWORK ACTIVITIES

 

Antibiotics Keep Falling on my Head. STOP Antibiotic Misuse.
Save the Pill for the Really Ill.

More World Health Day 2011 projects on the ReAct South East Asia WHD page

Video available in Spanish "Nos están  lloviendo antibióticos", on ReAct Latin America
WHD page

Video in Thai on ReAct South East Asia WHD page

 

World Health Day Celebraton at Universiti Sains Malaysia

Universiti Sains Malaysia´s Discipline Of Social and Administrative Pharmacy (DSAP), Champions Action on Antibiotic Resistane During The World Health Day Celebration.

Read more on the ReAct South East Asia WHD page


The Beginning of a New Era in Antibiotic Development

ReAct organized seminar entitled “The beginning of a new era
in antibiotic development: Shaping of a new business model for life-saving innovation” in Brussels on March 29.

Read more about the seminar

 

PhotoResist, Antibiotic Resistance in my Primary Health Center and my Community

A documentaction and edu-communication project, based on photography.

More about the photo project and other World Health Day 2011 activities on the ReAct Latin America WHD page



The Global Need for Effective Antibiotics - Moving towards Concerted Action

Summary Report from the joint ReAct and Uppsala University
conference in Uppsala, September 6-8, 2010.

Download from Drug Resistance Updates

Read more about the conference



In collaboration with ReAct and other organizations, the World Health Organization launches the campaign "Combat Drug Resistance" no action today, no cure tomorrow, on World Health Day, April 7, 2011

More about the campaign on the WHO WHD site

 

 

New publication from WHO Patient Safety in partnership with ReAct


ReAct co-shared the chapters "Rational Antimicrobial Use and regulations" and "Enabling Innovations to Combat AMR"

Read more about the project on the WHO Patient Safety site

 

 

WHO High Level Panel on Antimicrobial Resistance on World Health Day, April 7

Mrs Martha Gyansa-Lutterodt from the Ghana Ministry of Health, partners with ReAct in the Ghanaian working group of antimicrobial resistance, is one of the invited speakers to the panel.

Download Ghana Statement for World Health Day 2011
(pdf 118 KB)

Read more about the Ghanaian working group on antimicrobial resistance

 


RELATED INFORMATION

China and Sweden: Joint Action to Manage Antibiotic Resistance

In October 2010 The Chinese and Swedish Ministers of Health signed an agreement and Plan of Action for Sino-Swedish health cooperation 2011-2014.

Download co-operation draft (pdf 76 KB)

 

Awareness Programme on Rational Use of Antibiotics

Organized by School of Biotechnology, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, India.


Supported by ReAct Network Partner; Indian Initiative for Management of Antibiotic Resistance (IIMAR)

More about the event and IIMAR


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