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FAO facilitates first meeting of Advisory Board of Indian Network for Fisheries and Animals Antimicrobial Resistance (INFAAR)
27/02/2018
In consonance with the National Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), the Indian Council for Agriculture Research (ICAR) forged a network of its leading laboratories to undertake surveillance of antimicrobial resistance and antimicrobial usage. The network was named as Indian [...]
Engaging Viet Nam in the global efforts to combat antimicrobial resistance using One Health approach
27/02/2018
The Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD), FAO Viet Nam together with the National Institute for Veterinary Research (NIVR) launched the project “Engaging the food and agriculture sectors in sub‐Saharan Africa and South and South‐East Asia in the global [...]
La FAO invite les vétérinaires et para-vétérinaires à une utilisation responsable des antimicrobiens
06/02/2018
Les antimicrobiens jouent un rôle critique dans le traitement des maladies animales (aquatiques et terrestres). Leur utilisation est essentielle pour la sécurité sanitaire, alimentaire et pour le bien-être des hommes et des animaux. Toutefois, l’utilisation inappropriée de ces médicaments favorise [...]
FAO and WHO meet with the Interagency Coordination Group on Antimicrobial Resistance
05/02/2018
Ha Noi, Viet Nam. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and World Health Organization (WHO) welcomed the Interagency Coordination Group (IACG) on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) delegate at the Green One UN House in Ha Noi, Viet [...]
Increasing threat of animal-to-human diseases – and antibiotic resistance in both – ring alarm bells at international conference
02/02/2018
Zoonotic diseases and misuse of antibiotics in animals and humans resulting in antimicrobial resistance (AMR) are converging in Asia-Pacific countries with potential deadly effects, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) warned today.
In Berlin, FAO and partners call for reduced use of antimicrobial drugs
19/01/2018
People take medicines to cure infections or diseases caused by microorganisms. But what happens when the disease-causing germs don’t react, because they’ve become resistant to that drug?
FAO partners with Swedish university in fight against antimicrobial resistance
12/01/2018
Antimicrobial resistance threatens to thrust the world into a post-antibiotic era where today’s life-saving medicines fail. Slowing the development of drug-resistant microbes is the aim of a new partnership between FAO and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
Strengthen laboratory capacity in Southeast Asia to detect antimicrobial residue in food product
04/01/2018
Antimicrobials play a critical role to treat diseases for aquaculture and livestock, contributing to assure food safety and quality. However, misuse or overuse antimicrobials in aquaculture can be left in aqualtic products, in water and environment resulting in over and [...]
Preserving effectiveness of antimicrobials through safe, prudent use
06/12/2017
Antimicrobials are essential in treating human and animal infectious diseases. However, misuse and overuse of antimicrobials result in Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) which make them less or ineffective at treating diseases. AMR has now been recognized as a significant threat to [...]
High level Tripartite Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance to be held in Cambodia
27/11/2017
International and national animal and public health; and environment experts will gather in Phnom Penh for the fifth time to discuss the action plan to combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Cambodia.