Communicating to professionals in hospitals and long-term care facilities

Up to half of all antibiotic use in hospitals is unnecessary of inappropriate. Antibiotic misuse in hospitals is a major driver of antibiotics resistance. What can be done?

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Patient stories

Stories of people whose lives were dramatically changed by antibiotic resistant superbugs

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Video pledges

What is your contribution to keep antibiotics working? Video pledges from organisations to be shared through social media from 15 November

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Combined resistance to multiple antibiotics: a growing problem in the EU

On the occasion of the 10th European Antibiotic Awareness Day, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) is releasing its latest EU-wide data on antibiotic resistance

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#KeepAntibioticsWorking: join us on social media! 

As a healthcare professional, what can you do to keep antibiotics working? What can a patient association do to contribute? What can policymakers do at European level? What can a parent do? Everyone can join the campaign on European Antibiotics Awareness Day- posting his/her own message, picture or video using the #KeepAntibioticsWorking hashtag. Tell the world what you do, in your professional or personal life, at individual or collective level, to use antibiotics responsibly and #KeepAntibioticsWorking! 

Read about the #KeepAntibioticsWorking campaign