Reports

New ReAct Report: Community engagement and AMR: Insights from the Asia Pacific Region

As the world grapples with complex health issues like antimicrobial resistance (AMR), there’s growing recognition that top-down approaches alone are insufficient.

A new report by ReAct Asia Pacific highlights the critical role of community engagement in addressing these challenges, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. The report is based on a preliminary desktop review of selected literature and interviews with civil society organizations and researchers working on community engagement in health and antimicrobial resistance.

Report: Impactful approaches for community-wide engagement on antibiotic resistance

In the fall of 2023, ReAct, Uppsala Antibiotic Center and Antibiotic Smart Sweden initiated a webinar and workshop series for promoting a systematic and meaningful engagement of communities and civil society groups as key stakeholders in the global response to antibiotic resistance. Now the collaboration releases a summary report from the initiative this far.

Handbook for Antibiotic Smart Communities Framework

Learn more about, and download, the data collection handbook for an “Antibiotic Smart Communities” indicator framework, developed by ReAct Asia Pacific. It aims to help measure the “antibiotic smartness” of communities in tackling antimicrobial resistance.

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ReAct Africa & South Centre Conference Report 2023

The hybrid ReAct Africa & South Centre Conference held in August 2023 had an attendance of 156 physical participants from 38 countries, and totally reflecting registrations from 67 countries worldwide. The theme for the 3-day conference was:  “Leave No One Behind: Advancing One Health Antimicrobial Resistance National Action Plans Implementation in Africa”.

During World AMR Awareness Week ReAct Africa and South Centre released the report from the conference held in Lusaka, Zambia.

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The Global Need for Effective Antibiotics – Unlocking Barriers for Collective Action

The Uppsala Dialogue Meeting “The Global Need for Effective Antibiotics – Unlocking Barriers for Collective Action” from May 2023 deliberated on the needs for a common vision and was an early step to propose key components and steps to make the next AMR UN High-level Meeting in September 2024 successful.

The meeting days resulted in the ReAct Report: Unlocking Barriers for Collective Action.

ReAct Europe Report: Ensuring sustainable access to effective antibiotics for everyone, everywhere – How to address the global crisis in antibiotic Research and Development

The ReAct Europe report “Ensuring sustainable access to effective antibiotics for everyone, everywhere – How to address the global crisis in antibiotic Research and Development” includes a comprehensive summary and critical evaluation of recent initiatives to overcome the barriers to achieve sustainable access to antibiotics. As antibiotic resistance will continue to develop as long as we  depend on these medicines to treat bacterial infections, a continuous supply of new effective antibiotics is needed.

ReAct Report: Treatment of newborn sepsis is threatened – effective antibiotics essential

ReAct conducted a web-based survey in 2020 aiming to understand the awareness, availability of guidelines, general practice and potential challenges physicians face around neonatal sepsis and antimicrobial resistance. Over 400 responses from 74 countries were received. Report in English and Spanish.

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ReAct Report: antibiotic resistance affects men and women differently

Sex and gender is important to consider in enhancing the understanding of the ‘human face’ of antibiotic resistance and antibiotic use, and how it affects a variety of people in different ways throughout their daily lives. ReAct now issues a report that explores the ways in which sex and gender interact with antibiotic resistance and makes the case for all actors engaged in addressing antibiotic resistance to undertake further work in this area.

When the Drugs Don’t Work - Antibiotic Resistance as a Global Development Problem

This report by ReAct and Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation looks at the state of global development when the drugs don’t work and a post-antibiotic era sets in. The report shows how antibiotic resistance is a global development problem by highlighting existing data and people’s experiences.

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New ReAct Report: Community engagement and AMR: Insights from the Asia Pacific Region

As the world grapples with complex health issues like antimicrobial resistance (AMR), there’s growing recognition that top-down approaches alone are insufficient.

A new report by ReAct Asia Pacific highlights the critical role of community engagement in addressing these challenges, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. The report is based on a preliminary desktop review of selected literature and interviews with civil society organizations and researchers working on community engagement in health and antimicrobial resistance.