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Mats Ulfendahl, chair of the JPIAMR management board, welcomes the Government’s message to adopt a ‘One Health’ approach to tackle the global problem of antibiotic resistance. This communication comes after a meeting on 9 March 2015 where Ulfendahl was an advisor to Swedish representatives from the Agricultural, Education and Research and Health ministries. The Swedish […]

Survey on Research Infrastructures and AMR The JPIAMR is conducting a short survey on knowledge about and use of Research Infrastructures (RI’s) within the field of antimicrobial resistance. The survey is open to all scientists and other interested parties who are involved in this field. With this short survey, the JPIAMR would like to identify […]

A prize of €1 million will be awarded to the person or team that develops a rapid test to tell whether a patient needs to be treated with antibiotics or not, the European Commission announced today. The aim of the Horizon Prize for better use of antibiotics is to stop many patients from taking antibiotics […]

JPIAMR welcome the AMR Review today’s report “Tackling a global health crisis: Initial steps” and the focus on constructive actions to tackle AMR. As the primary focus of the Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance (JPIAMR) is to promote research on AMR we strongly support the idea of setting up a global fund for research […]

The White House proposed a $1.2 billion investment in new drug development, antibiotic stewardship and surveillance programs and evaluation of antibiotic use in agriculture as part of the 2016 federal budget.

Data on antimicrobial consumption and use  and occurrence of antimicrobial resistance in humans and animals is presented in a report published jointly by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA). The analysis combines data from  five European monitoring networks that gather […]

In order to promote coordination, alignment of agendas, coverage of research gaps and avoidance of duplications, the JPI AMR needs to collect and analyse information of the research done on the field under national programmes. The same is valid regarding the evaluation of JPI AMR own activities and the assessment of its impact. To this […]