Prevention and control of antimicrobial resistance in the food chain: WHO guidelines
In 2011, the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe published a document entitled “Addressing antibiotic resistance from a food security perspective in Europe”. It explored options for preventing and containing antibiotic resistance in the food chain through national coordination and international cooperation. Over the past decade, significant progress has been made and good results have been achieved. However, foodborne antimicrobial resistance remains a problem in the WHO European…
The PROMISE newsletter n°25 for February 2024 has been published
The latest edition of the PROMISE newsletter is online. This newsletter n°25 for the month of February 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 WHO publishes list of medically important antimicrobials for human medicine A new platform for collecting data on sales and use of antimicrobials in animals [Save…
[Save The Date] AntibioDEAL Days on April 8 and 9, 2024 at Kremlin-Bicêtre
To combat the silent pandemic of antibiotic resistance, the PROMISE professional meta-network was set up as part of the Priority Antibiotic Resistance Research Plan. The emerging AntibioDEAL network is part of this program and aims to structure research and development into anti-infective agents at the national level and foster a collaborative environment. AntibioDEAL’s aims also to identify and remove the scientific and technological barriers to the discovery of anti-infective agents,…
WHO publishes the Medically Important Antimicrobials List for Human Medicine
To preserve their public health benefits, the responsible and prudent use of antimicrobials needs to be improved in all sectors – human, animal and environment. In particular, antimicrobials that are medically important for human medicine need to be preserved by reducing their use in the non-human sectors. That’s why the WHO publishes the list of medically important antimicrobials for human medicine (WHO MIA List). It’s a risk management tool that…
A new platform for collection of sales and use data of antimicrobials in animals
The collection of data on the sales and use of antimicrobials in animals has always been critical in the fight against antimicrobial resistance. As of January 2024, all Member States in the European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA) must submit these data annually to the Antimicrobial Sales and Use (ASU) Platform. This new obligation was introduced by the Veterinary Medicinal Products Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2019/6) as one of…
The PROMISE newsletter n°24 for January 2024 has been published
The latest edition of the PROMISE newsletter is online. This newsletter n°24 for the month of January 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 The High Council for Public Health (HCSP) publishes a list of priority infectious diseases JPIAMR: a call for transnational projects to better prevent antimicrobial resistance…
The HCSP publishes a list of priority infectious diseases
The High Council for Public Health (HCSP) defines hygiene measures for the prevention of the main infectious diseases in the general population. Recently, he published a report relating to the establishment of a list of priority infectious diseases. To carry out this work, the method chosen was the multi-criteria decision analysis recommended by the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). A list of 95 entities (diseases or groups…
JPIAMR: a transnational call to improve the prevention and the mitigation of antimicrobial drug resistance
To take action against the growing global threat of increased spread of antimicrobial (antibacterial and antifungal) resistance, a call for projects is launched as part of the JPIAMR. This call will fund international collaborative research projects aiming to improve, compare and evaluate the effectiveness, cost effectiveness, and uptake of existing interventions against bacterial or fungal infections and/or to design new interventions against fungal infections. Through this call, the ERA-NET JPIAMR-ACTION…
The PROMISE newsletter n°23 – December 2023 – has been published
The latest edition of the PROMISE newsletter is online [FR]. This newsletter n°23 for December 2023 offers you the latest news relating to antimicrobial resistance and the One Health global approach : Featured PROMISE 2023 General Assembly: a successful meeting University degree “Antibiotic resistance and global One Health approach”: already 1 month since the launch! Some reading The news not to be missed: “Call for transnational projects to better prevent…