On the occasion of European Antibiotic Awareness Day and following the success with video pledges in 2015, ECDC continues to encourage organisations to share video pledges on the work that they are doing to tackle antibiotic resistance.
The data presented in this section were collected by the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Network (EARS-Net), which is coordinated by ECDC. For 2015, a total of 30 countries, including all EU Member States and two EEA countries (Iceland and Norway), reported data to EARS-Net. For more details on EARS-Net, surveillance results and information on methods, please refer to the EARS-Net Annual Report 2014i and the ECDC Surveillance Atlas of Infectious Diseasesii .
Antibiotic consumption data presented in this summary were collected by the European Surveillance of
Antimicrobial Consumption Network (ESAC-Net) at ECDC.
The General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) is meeting together with its Member States, non-governmental organisations, civil society, and representatives from the private sector and academia to call for further regional, national and international political commitment to address the challenges posed by antimicrobial resistance.
A new free online course created by Uppsala University introduces the concepts of antibiotic resistance and what actions are needed to meet this global health threat.
In 2016, the European Commission’s EU Health Award will recognise and reward the efforts and achievements of European NGOs towards reducing the threat to human health from antimicrobial resistance.
A manual for developing national action plans to address antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been released by the World Health Organization (WHO), in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).