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PRIMO and SPARES publish their annual report.

On April 18, Public Health France published the annual reports of its 2 national antimicrobial resistance surveillance missions: PRIMO and SPARES The PRIMO report provides an inventory of the surveillance of bacterial resistance in city care and in establishments for dependent elderly people for the year 2021. The SPARES report offers an inventory of the surveillance of antibiotic consumption and bacterial resistance in healthcare establishments for the year 2021. These…

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Summary of the AntibioDEAL 2023 days

The first annual AntibioDEAL days took place on March 29 and 30, 2023 in Caen in hybrid mode. The 114 face-to-face participants and the 31-videoconference participants attended 19 presentations by academic and industrial speakers. The themes addressed, whether in human or animal health, illustrated great innovations but also allowed to understand the economic difficulties linked to the development of new anti-infective agents. This event showed that therapeutic innovation in human…

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The Pasteur Institute launches its new Massive Online Open Course on “Resistance to Antibacterial Agents”

Registration for the Massive Online Open Course “Resistance to Antibacterial Agents” of the InstitutPasteur is officially open until March 7! These MOOCs were produced with the financial support of PROMISE and the participation of manymembers of the network. Registration is free and open to all on the Fun MOOC platform: https://www.funmooc.fr/en/courses/resistance-bacterial-agents/. The courses will be broadcast in English with French subtitles, from January 10 to March 14 2023, so that…

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PROMISE holds its annual general meeting in Paris

On December 15, 2022, members of the meta-network braved the cold and the strikes to attend thePROMISE general assembly. On a barge, they reviewed all the activities carried out in 2021. This event was an opportunity todiscuss our first outcomes, initiate new collaborations and reflect on new perspectives. This hybrid event brought together around 50 people: 30 on site and 20 remotely. A workshop, dedicated to the data warehouse, also…

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Santé Publique France publishes its annual “One Health” summary

As part of World Antibiotic Awareness Week, Santé Publique France published its annual “OneHealth” summary on November 19, 2022. This document presents the main results of the surveillance of antibiotic consumption and resistance,for 2021, in human and animal health and in the environment. It also highlights the actionsimplemented for prevention, infection control and stewardship. It targets human, animal andenvironmental health professionals and is accessible to people who are not specialists…

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A PROMISE seminar on the need for a more local and responsible production of antibiotics to limit their environmental impact and prevent from shortages.

On November 14, 2022, PROMISE, SPILF and AntibioEst co-organized a seminar to bring togetherscientific, political and industrial players around the topic of the ecological impact of antibiotics,discuss the feasibility of eco-responsible antibiotic production, the relocation of antibiotic productionin France/Europe and the introduction of environmental criteria in the choice of distributedantibiotics in France. This event, held at the Ministry of Health and Prevention, brought together 98 participants on siteand more than…

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PRIMO, successful winner of a JPIAMR « network » call

Congratulations to the PRIMO network, successful winner of a JPIAMR “network” call, for its BASICSproject (Bridging Antimicrobial resistance Surveillance systems In Community Settings across Europe). BASICS brings together 18 partners from 11 different countries around 4 objectives: Describe the structure of clinical microbiology services for primary care, Identify existing antimicrobial resistance surveillance networks, Assess the interoperability of antimicrobial resistance surveillance systems and data at European level, Explore strategies to disseminate…

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Santé Publique France launched its new communication campaign on the
correct use of antibiotics

Launched in October 2022, Santé Publique France’s new communication campaign“Antibiotics, to be cured, you should start using them correctly” aims to raise awareness, amongthe general public, on the correct use of antibiotics. Two videos remind that antibiotics areonly effective in case of bacterial infections and that they should be taken only on medicaladvice. This communication campaign also ambitions to propose posters in the waiting rooms ofhealthcare professionals, radio messages as…

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