Students for Antimicrobial Stewardship

Nottingham Trent University - Makerere University Partnership

Invites you to the launch of the World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week (WAAW) University students' competition 2024

Presenter: Dr. Jody Winter
Principal Lecturer, School of Science and Technology,
Nottingham Trent University, UK

🗓Date: Thursday 10th October 2024
🕐Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm EAT
Venue : Online Zoom
Link : Join Zoom Meeting
https://bit.ly/WAAWUniversitystudentscompetition2024
Meeting ID: 949 2364 1175
Passcode: 295108

Moderator: Filimin Niyongabo, Research Associate, Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH)
All students are invited

To register for NTU-MAK WAAW event 23. Please see the link https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=xcLLiu3Ix0KBabpDig2-L0KRemO2qIlEgtBrNBHcui1UODNER0k4VlU4MEM1SkEwTUROQVVZTkdKWi4u

The partnership launched the WAAW students’ competition 2023 under three categories: a comic strip to raise awareness of AMR and promote antimicrobial stewardship; a video, song, dance, or rap (maximum 5 minutes) to raise awareness of AMR and AMS in an engaging way; and a researchers’ video (maximum 2 minutes) explaining AMR-related research to a broader audience. The launch was presided over by Dr. Jody Winter, a principal lecturer from the School of Science and Technology at Nottingham Trent UniversityThe submission deadline for entries is Monday, November 13, 2023, via email at [email protected]. All university students across the globe are encouraged to apply, and prize winners will be awarded on November 21, 2023, during the NTU-Mak WAAW event.

For more information see the link: https://sph.mak.ac.ug/news/ntu-mak-partnership-launches-university-students-world-antimicrobial-awareness-week .

NTU – Mak Partnership Launches a University Students’ World Antimicrobial Awareness Week Competition 2023. The submission deadline for entries is Monday, November 13, 2023, via email at jody.....ac.uk. All university students across the globe are encouraged to apply, and prize winners will be awarded on November 21, 2023, during the NTU-Mak WAAW event. For more infromation: See the link https://sph.mak.ac.ug/news/ntu-mak-partnership-launches-university-students-world-antimicrobial-awareness-week

NTU – Mak Partnership Launches a University Students’ World Antimicrobial Awareness Week Competition 2023 Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) continues to remain one of the most pressing health threats in the 21st century and, if not tackled, will render treatment ineffective in the near future. Raising awareness about AMR globally and collaborative efforts have been identified as two of the key strategies t...

Call for Entries: Regional Antimicrobial Resistance Media Award (Africa)
Deadline: Oct 30, 2023
Donor: World Health Organisation
Grant Type: Awards, Prizes and Challenges
Grant Size: Not Available
Countries/Regions: Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo (Brazzaville), Congo DR, Cote DIvoire (Ivory Coast), Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Reunion, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Sao Tome And Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Sudan
Area: Journalism, Media, Storytelling
The World Health Organisation Regional Office for Africa is pleased to announce the call for entries for the Regional AMR Champion Journalist and Media House Awards organized jointly by quadripartite (FAO, UNEP, WOAH, WHO) and the African Union to recognize outstanding contributions in raising awareness about Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and promoting responsible journalism in the field.
For more information, visit https://www.afro.who.int/countries/zimbabwe/publication/call-entries-1st-regional-antimicrobial-resistance-media-awards
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On 17th October 2023, the partnership launched the WAAW students’ competition 2023 under 3 categories of a comic strip to raise awareness of AMR and promote antimicrobial stewardship; video/ song/dance/rap (maximum 5 minutes) to raise awareness of AMR and AMS in an engaging way; and a researchers’ video (maximum 2 minutes) explaining your AMR -related research to a broader audience. The launch was presided over by Dr. Jody Winter, Principal Lecturer from the School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University.
Submission deadline is Monday 13th November 2023 via email at [email protected]. All university students across the globe are encouraged to apply and prize winners will be awarded on 21st November 2023 during Mak-NTU WAAW event. To see past year events visit https://jodywinter.wixsite.com/waaw

AMS interventions are comprehensive strategies aimed at optimizing the use of antimicrobial agents to preserve their effectiveness and mitigate the risk of resistance development.

This study aimed to measure AMS program impact by comparing a One-year baseline period prior to the implementation of the AMS to four years of follow-up data after the program was initiated in terms of restricted antimicrobials use and cost, and rate of healthcare associated infections (HAIs) occurrence in adult inpatients hospitalized at four HMG healthcare facilities in Saudi Arabia.

These AMS interventions include education of prescribers and other healthcare workers, audit and feedback activities (real-time, either written or oral, or retrospective) and restrictive interventions, such as pre-authorization of targeted antibiotics

Data-mining software to develop automated reports to capture key pharmacy, cost and microbiological data on all adult hospital in patients receiving restricted antimicrobials. Data were collected to evaluate the impact of AMS interventions and on use of restricted antibiotics to identify areas for improvement of antibiotic prescribing for the whole HMG organization.

Antimicrobial stewardship program implementation at four Habib Medical Group (HMG) medical facilities resulted in reduction in the consumption and cost of several broad-spectrum antimicrobial agents. It was also associated with lower incidence of healthcare associated infections within these hospitals.

Attached is the link and PDF

The impact of antimicrobial stewardship program implementation at four tertiary private hospitals: results of a five-years pre-post analysis - Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control Background Antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) programs have shown to reduce the emergence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and health-care-associated infections (HAIs), and save health-care costs associated with an inappropriate antimicrobial use. The primary objective of this study was to compare the...

Did you know that patient treatment seeking pathways are key drivers of AMR?

This study reveals how different socio-economic, attitudinal and contextual factors intersect with antibiotic use.

It focuses on thee aspects: patients self treating rather than seeking help at medical facility, having multiple treatment patterns and antibiotic consumption during the pathways.

Follow the link below to the findings in the recent publication.

Unravelling patient pathways in the context of antibacterial resistance in East Africa - BMC Infectious Diseases Background A key factor driving the development and maintenance of antibacterial resistance (ABR) is individuals’ use of antibiotics (ABs) to treat illness. To better understand motivations and context for antibiotic use we use the concept of a patient treatment-seeking pathway: a treatment journe...

Hand washing is one of the proposed infection prevention and control (IPC)practices to curb antimicrobial resistance.

WHO recommended 5 moments of hand hygiene to minimize transmission risk of micro organisms between the patient, health worker and environment.

These include before and after touching a patient, before an aseptic procedure, after contact with patient, after body fluid exposure risk and after contact with patient surroundings.

Follow this link to read more.

5 Moments for Hand Hygiene | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care The 5 Moments – infographic

Have you been having a difficult time understanding AMR, its causes, burden, drivers and strategies for addressing it? Are you interested in mechanisms of action of AMR at a deeper level?

Read this publication that explains the concepts better.

Follow this link and PDF to explore more.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001150292030033X?casa_token=tZ0-Syz7MDQAAAAA:nandP7AyDJTd-IF--_doDyEMEvyt67UKgYS-zcoS0roKDwH7MPcezHMAGhPyWN4U7QjeOofxyRI

Short videos on Antimicrobial Resistance by BRA

As we all know starting from 18th to 24th November 2022, it's world antimicrobial awareness week. Here are some short videos ( 20-40seconds each) to give you an overview of Antimicrobial Resistance.

Kindly spare some few minutes (not more that 5minutes) to watch all the five videos, and share them to all your Networks.

To Access the playlist : https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwsm-CLZ73N4jkAA9cTi6zDUSayefhtbO

Individual videos
1. Introduction to AMR
https://youtu.be/67vu5fHrlqU

2. Practices that Drive development of AMR
https://youtu.be/cj5PzXjGOCI

3. Practices that lead to spread of AMR
https://youtu.be/SCbQmiu3-HY

4. How to prevent development of AMR
https://youtu.be/BK1b_oR_dfQ

5. How to prevent spread of AMR
https://youtu.be/pi_AkKoKbJI

Prepared by BUSITEMA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND INNOVATION ASSOCIATION (BRA)

Short Videos on Antimicrobial Resistance Episode 5(Final): How to prevent spread of AMR This is our final episode in these short series and it focuses on how to prevent the spread of Antimicrobial Resistance.I hope you benefit from these videos....

Short videos on Antimicrobial Resistance by BRA

As we all know starting from 18th to 24th November 2022, it's world antimicrobial awareness week. Here are some short videos ( 20-40seconds each) to give you an overview of Antimicrobial Resistance.

Kindly spare some few minutes (not more that 5minutes) to watch all the five videos, and share them to all your Networks.

To Access the playlist : https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwsm-CLZ73N4jkAA9cTi6zDUSayefhtbO

Individual videos
1. Introduction to AMR
https://youtu.be/67vu5fHrlqU

2. Practices that Drive development of AMR
https://youtu.be/cj5PzXjGOCI

3. Practices that lead to spread of AMR
https://youtu.be/SCbQmiu3-HY

4. How to prevent development of AMR
https://youtu.be/BK1b_oR_dfQ

5. How to prevent spread of AMR
https://youtu.be/pi_AkKoKbJI

Prepared by BUSITEMA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND INNOVATION ASSOCIATION (BRA)