You Tube Video Accessed February 4, 2020

Antibiotics are important medicines for the treatment of bacterial infections in humans and animals. Since their introduction in the 1940’s antibiotics have saved countless lives and has made many medical techniques possible or safer

Key messages for professionals working at hospitals and other healthcare settings: managers/administrators, infectious disease specialists, infection prevention and control professionals, epidemiologists, prescribers, junior doctors and students, pharmacists, nurses, clinical microbiologists, and professionals in emergency departments, in intensive care units, and in long-term care facilities

App - Learn how to handle antibiotics with care & help us stop antibiotic resistance

AWaRe Website with different information material

A short movie about the history and the current status of antibiotics from the four week online course: Antibiotic Resistance: the silent tsunami, produced by ReAct and Uppsala University, Sweden.

Spectrum is a mobile app that can be customized to deliver local antimicrobial stewardship resources in any hospital. Spectrum delivers all of your clinical pathways directly to the point of care. Each guideline is presented in an algorithmic format for ease of use and can incorporate individualized patient factors to provide tailored recommendation

Many of the medical breakthroughs of the last century could be lost through the spread of antimicrobial resistance. Previously curable infectious diseases may become untreatable and spread throughout the world. This has already started to happen. Newsroom - Facts in Pictures is also available in French and Chines

How does antibiotic resistance spread? Antibiotic resistance is the ability of bacteria to combat the action of one or more antibiotics. Humans and animals do not become resistant to antibiotic treatments, but bacteria carried by humans and animals can