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Organizations Driving the Global AMR Response
Antimicrobial resistance threatens millions of lives each year, and no single organization can address it alone. This directory includes the many organizations around the world conducting policy work and advocacy campaigns, building coalitions, providing services for their citizens, and engaging in cross-border cooperation to shape the global AMR response.
African Association for Research and Control of Anti-Microbial Resistance (AARAM)
This organization works to promote contacts and exchanges between specialists in drug resistance in bacteria, fungi, parasites and viruses affecting humans or animals across Africa and beyond. It develops education, training, and interdisciplinary research programs in chemoresistance, contributes to control and prevention strategies, promotes ethics in AMR research, and strengthens collaboration between chemoresistance specialists and experts from other disciplines, with a vision of safe and effective antimicrobials for all, today and tomorrow.
African Union
Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) is a specialized technical institution of the African Union established to support public health initiatives of Member States and strengthen the capacity of their public health institutions to detect, prevent, control and respond quickly and effectively to disease threats. Africa CDC supports African Union Member States in providing coordinated, integrated solutions to inadequacies in their public health infrastructure, human resource capacity, disease surveillance, laboratory diagnostics, and preparedness and response to health emergencies and disasters.
AMR Action UK
AMR Action UK is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO). Its activities are overseen by a Board of Trustees. There is one formal Committee of the Board which is the Finance Committee, as well as advisory structures to provide the Board with advice on matters of technical interest, for example, scientific and research activities. Registered with Charity Commission for England and Wales (1157884) and Scotland (SC055094). Registered under the Expression of Intent for Section 167 of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008.
AMR Initiative Rwanda
AMR Initiative Rwanda is a nonprofit combating antimicrobial resistance by promoting responsible antimicrobial use across human, animal and environmental sectors, using a One Health approach. Its objectives include raising national AMR awareness through education, strengthening surveillance and research, improving infection prevention through sanitation and hygiene, optimizing antimicrobial use across sectors, integrating AI into AMR response, and driving research and development, with youth empowerment central to its vision.
AMR Patient Alliance
Addressing AMR requires concerted efforts by all stakeholders. We, as patients, patient caregivers, patient advocates and patient organisations have a goal to preserve effectiveness of antimicrobial medicines for as long as possible, so that they can be successfully used in treatment of infections, as well as to advocate for rational use and equitable access to existing and new anti-infective medicines and vaccines for everyone, everywhere.
AMR Register
Vivli is a nonprofit advancing human health through data sharing and analysis, running an independent global platform with a data repository, search engine, and cloud-based analytics that acts as a neutral broker between data contributors and users. To tackle antimicrobial resistance, Vivli built the AMR Register, developed with Wellcome funding, which opens pharmaceutical surveillance data to researchers so they can track resistance trends, detect outbreaks, and inform national and international policy and stewardship efforts.
Antimicrobial Resistance Fighter Coalition
We welcome all individuals and organizations in the fight against antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The Antimicrobial Resistance Fighter Coalition aspires to change behaviors across the globe that will maintain the effectiveness of antibiotics for future generations. Our goal is to share stories, facts, and awareness on the spread of AMR and how we can change our behaviors now to prevent it from becoming a bigger problem than it already is.
ARMoR
ARMoR aims to save lives from antimicrobial resistance by supporting policies that enable the development and equitable global access of life-saving antibiotics.
Association for Social Development (ASD)
Association for Social Development (ASD) is a registered nonprofit civil society organization in Pakistan that has worked since 1995 with national disease control programmes and research institutions. ASD develops and evaluates scalable integrated healthcare delivery models with meaningful community engagement, covering conditions from TB, malaria and hepatitis to diabetes, asthma, mental health and maternal and child health. It has won the Karel Styblo Prize and Princess Chichibu Memorial TB Global Award, and serves on the WHO Civil Society Task Force for TB.
British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
Founded in 1971, the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC) is one of the world’s leading communities of infection experts, bringing together scientists, healthcare professionals, policymakers, and industry leaders. With thousands of members across the world, the Society is dedicated to educating and training the global workforce, promoting antimicrobial stewardship in the face of rising drug-resistant infections.
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