From 18 to 24 November 2024 is World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week on the theme “Educate. Advocate. Act Now“. Each year, this is an opportunity to raise awareness of the problem of antimicrobial resistance among the general public (and also among professionals in every sector – human, animal and environmental), and to promote best practice in this area. Numerous organisations, institutions and other players took the opportunity to disseminate key…

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PROMISE serves to build interactions between players who usually work in silos, and enables members of the community to share their practices, expertise and knowledge, as well as coordinating their action around 9 priority objectives. Among these objectives, improving communication and awareness of antimicrobial resistance is a key challenge. To mark World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week 2024, which runs from 18 to 24 November, PROMISE and ANEPF (France’s national association…

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Each year, Santé Publique France produces indicators to estimate trends in the consumption of antibiotics in the outpatient sector in France, which accounts for more than 90% of total consumption of these drugs. Following a gradual downward trend over the last few years and a sharp fall in consumption in 2020, a recovery was observed in 2021 and confirmed in 2022. In 2023, the downward trend observed prior to the…

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An essential report to better understand and act against antibiotic resistance! This is how is presented the report “Surveillance de la consommation d’antibiotiques en établissements d’hébergement pour personnes âgées dépendantes disposant d’une pharmacie à usage intérieur. Mission Spares. Résultats 2020-2022” recently published. As a reminder, the national SPARES mission is one of the 5 missions of RéPIA, the network run by Santé Publique France. This mission monitors two complementary aspects…

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The latest edition of the PROMISE newsletter is online. This newsletter n°33 for the month of October 2024 offers you the latest news relating to antimicrobial resistance and the One Health global approach, from a perspective of disseminating information. On the program in particular: Featured PROMISE 2024 General Meeting: a successful event AMR-Env: ‘3 questions to Nora Navarro-Gonzalez’ to find out more about the network dedicated to antimicrobial resistance in…

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The PROMISE 2024 General Meeting was held on Friday 11 October 2024. The event was held at the Novotel Paris Gare de Lyon Hotel. The meeting was an opportunity for members of the meta-network to get together and present the work in progress or finalised by the various working groups. It was also an opportunity to take stock of the project after 3 years, and to discuss its future, since…

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The AMR-Env working group is an emerging French network dedicated to antibiotic resistance in the environment, initiated as part of the PROMISE meta-network. It brings together several French research units and existing French networks. One of the aims of AMR-Env is to demonstrate the feasibility of an environmental antimicrobial resistance monitoring system in France. To achieve this, the network brings together a multitude of French research players (researchers, lecturers, engineers,…

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The Member States of the United Nations met for the High-Level Meeting of the General Assembly from 23 to 27 September 2024 in New York. This year, the high-level meeting on health focused on the theme of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and took place on 26 September. This 2024 edition resulted in the adoption of an ambitious political declaration for enhanced global action to combat AMR, addressing its many challenges and…

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The latest edition of the PROMISE newsletter is online. This newsletter n°31 for the month of August 2024 offers you the latest news relating to antimicrobial resistance and the One Health global approach, from a perspective of disseminating information. On the program in particular: Featured Preventing and reducing antibiotic resistance, combating antimicrobial resistance: the 2024-2034 interministerial roadmap has been published AMR-Env: discover the network dedicated to antimicrobial resistance in the…

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