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ESOF 2014 – Copenaghen, June 21-26 2014

Jun 23, 2014

First call update

Jun 10, 2014

Free screening of “Resistance” film in Washington, June 11 2014

Jun 5, 2014

2014 European Scientific Conference on Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology, 5-7 November, Stockholm

Jun 5, 2014

The 2014 ESCAIDE conference will be held in Stockholm, Sweden from 5-7 November. The conference will be hosted at the Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre, in the heart of the city. The ESCAIDE programme will offer a huge range of exciting presentations, posters, seminars and workshops on all aspects of infectious disease prevention and control, including […]

World Health Assembly closed

Jun 5, 2014

The Sixty-seventh World Health Assembly closed today, after adopting more than 20 resolutions on public Health issues of global importance. Source: WHO

TATFAR Progress Report

Jun 5, 2014

The US and the EU continue to work together to address this growing threat.  The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and The European Commission (EC) have released the first progress report of the Transatlantic Taskforce on Antimicrobial Resistance (TATFAR). Source: CDC  

EU and US team up in the fight against antimicrobial resistance

Jun 5, 2014

Source: ECDC

Nature call for the development of an intergovernmental panel on antimicrobial resistance similar to climate change

Jun 4, 2014

Source: Nature

Press release from the Antibiotic Resistance Coalition

Jun 3, 2014

Source: ReAct

WHO global surveillance report on Antimicrobial resistance

May 16, 2014

In its first global evaluation of surveillance and information on antimicrobial resistance, the World Health Organization (WHO) called attention to increasing levels of bacterial resistance to many common drugs. The report, titled “Antimicrobial resistance: global report on surveillance, 2014” revealed that antimicrobial resistance has spread to all regions of the world, making it clear that […]