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Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the greatest threats to public health, sustainable development, and security worldwide. Its prevalence has increased alarmingly over the past decades. The term “One Health” is now used widely to recognize the interconnectedness of the health of people, animals, and the environment. Multisectoral collaborations and concerted global efforts across multiple health domains are needed to tackle AMR. Despite the complexity of AMR determinants, healthcare workers play a central role in preventing the emergence and spread of AMR, optimizing antimicrobial use, strengthening surveillance and infection prevention and control, and improving education and awareness regarding the appropriate use of antibiotics and the correct respect of infection prevention and control measures. The webinar is free of charge and completely online. To give people from all over the world the opportunity to connect, the webinar will last 15 hours, starting at 6.55 a.m. UTC and ending at 10.00 p.m. UTC. The webinar will be held during World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week. It aims to increase awareness of AMR and to encourage a comprehensive approach to infections in hospital settings. Throughout the webinar meeting, speakers from all around the world will debate the main aspects of AMR and the prevention and management of infections in hospital settings.
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Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a global challenge. No single country, however effective it is at containing resistance within its boundaries, can protect itself from the importation of multi-drug resistant organisms. The global nature of antimicrobial resistance calls for a global response, both in the geographic sense and across the whole range of sectors involved. Nobody is exempt from the problem. There is no single ‘silver bullet’ to address AMR. What we need to tackle the AMR problem is an adaptive, multipronged approach involving many stakeholders – working locally, nationally, and globally – to attain optimal health for people, animals, and the environment. What we need is a multidisciplinary approach, considering also the great diversity of social, economic, political, and cultural contexts in which AMR emerges or spreads. What we need are strategies to increase awareness about AMR in order to implement more effective interventions. Finally, what we need is a comprehensive and solidaristic model as the only solution for a problem that knows no borders. To tackle AMR, antimicrobial effectiveness needs to be recognized as a fundamentally important global public good and governed accordingly. AMR is a challenge to global development. Antimicrobial effectiveness must be looked upon as a limited global public good on the verge of becoming scarce, and the world has a collective responsibility to preserve it in order to avoid countless future victims of drug-resistant infections. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that despite all of our medical advances, we remain incredibly vulnerable to infections for which we have no therapies. However, it has shown that if sufficiently motivated, we can make huge changes in short time frames. The COVID-19 pandemic has also created a renewed awareness of the importance of infectious diseases. It is a substantial entry point for reigniting the momentum toward containing the “silent pandemic” of AMR.
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Massimo Sartelli
Global Alliance for Infections in Surgery
Global Alliance for Infections in Surgery 