by Sascha Marschang | May 30, 2016 | Antimicrobial Resistance | Analysis & Opinion, Communicable diseases and health threats
Looking for technical guidance by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), the European Commission feels that now is the right time to act and develop guidelines on prudent use of antimicrobials in human medicine, similar to those that already...
by EPHA | May 3, 2016 | Communicable diseases and health threats
A recent conference in London, ’Antibiotics and Farming: Prescriptions for Change’ organised by the Alliance to Save our Antibiotics and Medact, explored the link between farming practices and drug-resistant infections in humans and animals. The event was...
by EPHA | Apr 6, 2016 | Communicable diseases and health threats
About one third of hospital patients are prescribed antibiotics and up to 50% of their use is unnecessary or inappropriate. ECDC data clearly reveals the causal association between the indiscriminate use of antibiotics and the spread of drug-resistant infections, also...
by EPHA | Apr 6, 2016 | Communicable diseases and health threats
Recent European Parliament votes on Veterinary Medicinal Products and Medicated Feed, and the adoption of the Animal Health Law are vital steps in tackling the spread of drug-resistant infections (antimicrobial resistance, AMR). Calls from public health experts to...
by EPHA | Mar 2, 2016 | Communicable diseases and health threats
As the European Commission undertakes its evaluation of the expiring Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), the joint EPHA – Health Care Without Harm Europe (HCWH) event of 10 December called for a much stronger consideration of the environmental...
by EPHA | Mar 2, 2016 | Communicable diseases and health threats
On 10 February 2016, European Ministers of Health and Agriculture were invited by the Netherlands Presidency of the EU Council to a Ministerial Conference on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in Amsterdam. The Ministers discussed the scale and urgency of the crisis...
