Join X-dialogue! Can people become community leaders in tackling the global challenge of AMR?

The upcoming United Nations High-Level Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), scheduled for the 26th of September 2024 in New York, presents an important opportunity to raise our voices as the new political declaration is considered.

As a lead-up to this event, The AMR Narrative and ReAct are jointly organising a community dialogue on X.com (previously Twitter), which will take place on the 10th of September 2024 at 4:00 pm CEST (2:00 pm GMT, 4:00 pm CAT, 3:00 pm BST, 10:00 am EDT).

This 60-minute dialogue will focus on how people, patients, carers, and survivors can become community leaders in tackling the global challenge of AMR.

What?

Join the X/Twitterchat on the theme:
“Can People become Community Leaders in tackling the global challenge of Antimicrobial Resistance?”

When?

10 September 2024: 4pm CEST (2pm GMT, 4pm CAT, 3pm BST, 10am EDT)

Who?

The chat is a collaboration between ReAct and The AMR Narrative

Where?

On X.com (Previously Twitter)

Hashtag: #theAMRnarrative

Questions for the chat

• Introductions first (5-10 mins, then questions asked every 10 mins thereafter)
• T1: How can healthcare providers and policy makers work more closely with patients and community organizations to combat AMR?
• T2: What specific actions would you like to see world leaders commit to in order to address AMR, when they meet at the UN General Assembly in September this year.
• T3: How could we simplify AMR messaging to reach a wider community?
• T4: How can patients or carers with lived experience of AMR impact the public, communities, policymakers, and others?
• CT: Any closing thoughts about how people can become leaders to tackle AMR?

How to participate:

Join us for a 60-minute community dialogue on X with our panel experts. Both panel experts and the public are encouraged to answer. Use the #theAMRnarrative hashtag in all your posts so that you are visible to others in the chat and captured on the transcript.

The session will be in a text format.

• To join, login to X.com (Previously Twitter) and search for the hashtag #theAMRnarrative making sure to select “latest” in the menu bar. Alternatively, if you’re unable to see the feed, follow @theAMRnarrative to see the questions posted live.
• We start with introductions for the first few minutes. Tell us who you are and what you do.
• Questions will be prompted every 10-minutes thereafter. Start your answers with the relevant T and number and always end with the hashtag #theAMRnarrative.
• The session can move quickly, therefore we advise our guests to prepare answers in advance. The questions can be viewed above.
• Registration isn’t necessary and the chat is open to everyone.
• The dialogue will be moderated in English, but feel free to answer in your local language.
• First and foremost, it’s the use of the hashtag that makes a dialogue like this work. Watch out for spelling mistakes and remember “the” – (i.e., #theAMRnarrative not #AMRnarrative)

 Special Guest Experts:

1. Dr. David Owoeye – Sickle Cell Warrior, Advocate and Author. AMR Survivor, Saudi Arabia / Nigeria
2. J. Randolph K. Keah – Head of Programs, Consummate Health and Sanitation, Liberia
3. Mary Lynne Van Poelgeest – President of the World Federation of Incontinence and Pelvic Problems and AMR (from the patient perspective), Netherlands
4. Flavia Kyomukama – Ugandan female patients’ and community systems strengthening financing advocate. She has lived with HIV since 1994 and is a cancer survivor since 2021. Flavia represents African patients and has worked with the International Alliance of Patients organisations (IAPO), represents NNGOs in terms of GFATM Uganda CCM, is the current Executive Director of Action Group for Health Human Rights and HIV/AIDS (AGHA), Uganda
5. Dr Ghada Zoubiane – Head of Partnerships at ICARS
6. Ibrahima Kouma – Blogger and Working Group Leaders at One Health in Action Initiative, Ivory Coast, Africa
7. Daniel Waruingi – Capacity Development and Youth Engagement Manager (ReAct) and Students Against Superbugs, Africa
8. Mbali Jiyane – Content Assistance and Programme Officer for Eh!woza, South Africa
9. Claudia Louati – Head of Policy, European Patients’ Forum (EPF), Europe
10. Nour Shamas – Antimicrobial Stewardship Clinical Pharmacist and Policy Advisor, Member: WHO Task Force of AMR Survivors, Lebanon
11. Rob Purdie – Founding Member of MyCare (Mycology Advocacy, Research and Education), Member: WHO Task Force of AMR Survivors, USA
12. Ivy Dimarucut – Member of the Board, Alliance of Patients’ Organisations Singapore (APOS)
13. Ngoni Veddie Muzondo – Head of Programs, Generational Stewards for Antimicrobials, Zimbabwe
14. Tafara Dandadzi – Deputy Director, Catholic Youth Network for Environmental Sustainability in Africa (CYNESA)
15. Regis Irankunda – Co-Founder Executive Director, AMR Alliance Rwanda
16. Brandon Jaka – Pharmacist and HIV drug-resistance survivor, Member: WHO Task Force of AMR Survivors, Zimbabwe
17. Dr Mayowa Sodiq Akinpelu – Chairperson, African Youth AMR Alliance Task Force
18. Phumeza Tisile – XDR-TB and AMR Survivor, Research Assistant and Advocacy Officer at TB Proof, South Africa
19. Candy Jacobs – Project Manager at TB Proof, South Africa
20. Dr Francesca Chiara – Chair of the Board of Trustees, The AMR Narrative, UK