#NCDCPublication📚

In 2017, the Nigeria #AMR Technical Working Group identified limited diagnostics utilisation & inadequate lab quality assurance as major factors affecting effective pathogen identification & #antimicrobial susceptibility testing in Nigerian health facilities.

In an ongoing collaboration between the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control & Robert Koch Institut, a baseline study was conducted aimed to improve diagnostic stewardship & expand #AntimicrobialResistance surveillance capacity, particularly in Nigerian secondary healthcare facilities.

Findings via
https://aricjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13756-022-01080-4

ICYMI

"#AntimicrobialResistance requires the efforts of the Human, Animal & Environmental sectors & also a whole-of-society approach to manage"

Watch our #AMR programme coordinator, Dr Tochi Okwor as she discusses the impact of #antimicrobial misuse in Nigeria.

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https://youtu.be/B1GgpIuoE2Y

Let's discuss #Antibiotics

Join us TOMORROW as we bring together #AntimicrobialResistance experts to discuss "Alternatives to #Antibiotics in Nigeria" & launch the One Health #AMR/#AMU Community of Practice website.

🗓️30th Nov 2022
🕑 10:00 am

Join via https://bit.ly/NAAWWebinar

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"Despite high mortality & morbidity, drug-resistant bacterial infections remain the forgotten pandemic"

In this PLOS Biology article, our #IPC/#AMR coordinator Dr Tochi Okwor & colleagues write on the need for urgent action & investment focusing on this 'pandemic'.

Read and share:
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3001903

#AntimicrobialStewardship (AMS) instituted at the global, national & subnational levels is recognised as a major strategy to tackle #AMR

Our peer-reviewed article appraises the factors influencing the implementation of AMS in Nigerian health facilities
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213716522001977?via%3Dihub

#AntimicrobialResistance is a global concern affecting everyone, everywhere, including users & non-users of #antimicrobials

Our National Action Plan for Antimicrobial Resistance incorporates a #OneHealth approach to contain #AMR in Nigeria

Read & share:
https://ncdc.gov.ng/themes/common/docs/protocols/77_1511368219.pdf

#AntimicrobialResistance is one of the top 10 health threats in the world.

Everyone everywhere, including users and non-users of #antimicrobials have a role to play to prevent #AMR.

#BeAntimicrobialAware

Every year, the National Antimicrobial Resistance Technical Working Group joins the global community to raise awareness of the dangers of misuse or overuse of #antimicrobials.

Fighting #AMR is a global endeavour that must be addressed through a #OneHealth approach as evident in this year's theme of #WAAW2023: ‘Preventing #AntimicrobialResistance together”

🔗Press Release
https://ncdc.gov.ng/news/504/nigeria-joins-the-global-community-to-commemorate-world-antimicrobial-awareness-week-%28waaw%29

#Antimicrobials are becoming less effective against common infections in animals & humans.

🚫 Do not self-medicate

✅ Visit a healthcare professional when sick

Everyone has a role to play to ensure #antimicrobials continue to work.

#AMR #WAAW2023

#AntimicrobialResistance is a threat, not only to the humans, but to the whole planet.

Together, we can fight #AMR by the responsible use of antimicrobials.

#WorldAMRWeek2023

As an individual, what can you do to prevent #Antimicrobial Resistance?

Our #AMR programme manager @beeodune will be live alongside other panellists on @drasatrust's @XSpaces discussion to speak on:

“Supergerms and the Future of Infection :

🗓️ Today, 24th November
🕙6:00 PM

🔗Join the conversation via:
http://bit.ly/LearnWithDRASA7

#WAAW2023 #WorldAMRAwarenessWeek

#AntimicrobialResistance is when medicines like #antimalarials, tetracycline, septrin, and amoxicillin no longer treat diseases they cured previously.

Everyone everywhere, including users and non-users of #antimicrobials has a role to play to prevent #AMR.

#BeAntimicrobialsAware