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The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, today joined high-level participants at the fourth Global Leaders Group (GLG) on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) to discuss future action, including the possible incorporation of AMR [...]

All around the world antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is on the rise in people, plants and animals leading to deaths from infections that cannot be treated even with the best medicines available.

La Alianza Tripartita y la UE refuerzan su compromiso contra la RAM a través del proyecto “Trabajando juntos para combatir la Resistencia a los Antimicrobianos”, la búsqueda de sinergias y la gestión intersectorial son el derrotero de la acción. Con los [...]

The publication of two Codex standards on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) coincides with a study in the Lancet released on 19 January 2022 that describes AMR as “one of the leading public health threats of the 21st century”. The Lancet study [...]

A double whammy is challenging livestock farmers in sub-Saharan Africa,  ticks and tick-borne diseases, and tsetse-transmitted  African Animal Trypanosomosis (AAT) or Nagana. There is no vaccine against AAT, and existing drugs are losing their efficacy because of the emergence of [...]

The FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific has supported several activities to raise awareness on AMR and on the need to use antimicrobials prudently among different audiences of Asia and the Pacific to mark WAAW

Due to its unique context in Mongolia, the risk of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) remains high. With its large number of livestock population, which outnumbers the human population by a factor of 20, and the easy access to over-the-counter drugs to [...]

“La FAO a través de su Centro de Referencia para la RAM, SENASICA de México, efectuó un webinario regional para compartir y consolidar avances y propuestas del proyecto regional gestionado por FAO, OIE, OPS y la UE en siete países [...]

 “El nuevo plan FAO presenta cinco objetivos estratégicos expresados en una cadena de resultados, y una lista detallada de actividades clave para orientar la implementación de los planes nacionales de acción sobre RAM en el sector de la alimentación y [...]

“Sabemos que la multidisciplina, el contacto entre los sectores público, privado y la academia, puede ser tremendamente virtuoso para poder compartir experiencias y puntos de vista, y consolidar los pasos a seguir en una materia tan importante como la RAM” [...]