Joint Statement and Call to Action on AMR endorsed by over 40 organisations, further signatures welcome!

by Sascha Marschang | Mar 14, 2018 | Antimicrobial Resistance | Latest Developments

Following its delivery at the European Commission’s Health Policy Platform on 27 November 2017, the EPHA-led Joint Statement and Call to Action on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), supporting and improving the implementation of the EU One Health Action Plan against...

No more silo thinking: Reducing Pharmaceuticals in the Environment and AMR

by Sascha Marschang | Mar 14, 2018 | Antimicrobial Resistance | Latest Developments

On 30 January, EPHA organised an event at the European Parliament, together with Changing Markets Foundation and the European Environmental Bureau, to discuss synergies between the available policy measures for tackling pharmaceuticals in the environment (PiE) and...

One Voice for One Health: Joint Statement and Call to Action on AMR open for endorsements now!

by Sascha Marschang | Nov 28, 2017 | Antimicrobial Resistance | Latest Developments

In 2016 at the European Commission’s Health Policy Platform, EPHA successfully pitched the idea of establishing a new Thematic Network on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in order to engage a diverse group of external partners around this topic and work together on a...

20 organisations call for ambitious EU action on pharmaceuticals in the environment

by EPHA | Nov 16, 2017 | Antimicrobial Resistance | Latest Developments

16th November 2017 Dear Commissioner Vella, We, the undersigned health and environmental organisations, are deeply concerned by the threat that pharmaceuticals in the environment pose to the health of the EU citizens, their communities, and the environment. We would...

Put an end to “Business as Usual”: 2017 European Antibiotic Awareness Day statement

by EPHA | Nov 15, 2017 | Antimicrobial Resistance | Latest Developments

EPHA issued this statement on 15 November 2017 ahead of the 10th European Antibiotic Awareness Day on 18th November EPHA has we advocated strongly for the release of the new EU Action Plan against AMR. We welcome that it reinforces the One Health approach. However, we...

Call for urgent action to tackle environmental pollution at pharmaceutical factories supplying the UK NHS

by EPHA | Nov 15, 2017 | Antimicrobial Resistance | Latest Developments

Together with Changing Markets Foundation, Health Action International (HAI), Health Care Without Harm Europe and the Alliance to Save Our Antibiotics, EPHA has written to the UK Secretaries of State for Foreign Affairs, Health and the Environment; the Scottish...