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Combatting AMR: reflections on CwPAMS successes in Nigeria

Antimicrobial stewardship presents unique challenges, morphing into new problems that require innovative solutions depending on the context....

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How to Manufacture Alcohol Hand Rub: Training video launched to support COVID-19 response

The Commonwealth Pharmacists Association announces the launch of a training video to support local pharmacy teams in the production of WHO alcohol rub....

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A Collective Effort to Tackle AMR: CwPAMS One Year On

It is probably one of my proudest moments of my career to see pharmacists from multiple institutions, associations and levels of practice united under the CwPAMS umbrella...

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Five Questions With…Dr. Marc Sprenger

AMR threatens progress toward achieving universal health coverage by making infections more difficult and costly to treat....

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Antibiotic Awareness: Ensuring Pharmaceutical Care in Ghana

We have seen a couple of cases where patients are becoming resistant to antibiotics and we are getting to a point where most of our antibiotics won’t work....

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Sustaining Antimicrobial Stewardship in Zambia

During a recent monitoring trip, THET's Grants Officer, Beatrice Waddingham, caught up with the pharmacy team working on AMS at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka...

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Tackling AMR in Ghana

We were so pleased to be awarded this first grant for AMS and know that if we can demonstrate change and improvement we can hope to make this work sustainable....

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Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance in Zambia 

Following the inception of our Commonwealth Partnerships for Antimicrobial Stewardship Grants we caught up one of the new grantees!...

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Commonwealth Partnership for Antimicrobial Stewardship – Partnerships announced!

THET is pleased to announce that twelve successful health partnerships have been awarded funding through the Commonwealth Partnerships for AMS Scheme....

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Call for proposals for new scheme to tackle AMR abroad now open!

  Government today opens call for proposals for new scheme to tackle AMR abroad....

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Learning from AMR focused health partnerships.

To date, Mozambique does not have a comprehensive national plan for controlling AMR that specifically addresses detection and reporting of priority AMR pathogens....

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Five Questions With…Dr Keith Ridge

Following the launch of the CWPAMS Programme and the growing global support and interest in antimicrobial resistance we caught up with Dr Keith Ridge....

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