European Antibiotic Awareness Day 2012

Event
  • Location: Europe-wide
  • Organised by: ECDC
The European Antibiotic Awareness Day is marked annually on 18 November to raise awareness about the threat to public health of antibiotic resistance and prudent antibiotic use.

A launch event 'Keeping Antibiotics Effective is Everyone’s Responsibility' took place on 16 November in Brussels, where the current European trends and actions related to antimicrobial resistance were presented.

Highlgights of the event:

  • Antibiotic resistance in Europe: latest data from ECDC, Dominique Monnet, ECDC Senior Expert & Head of Programme
  • The Commission’s Action Plan against Antimicrobial Resistance, Paola Testori Coggi, Director General, DG Health and Consumers
  • Antimicrobial resistance – the EU research strategy, Robert-Jan Smits, Director General, DG Research
  • EP report on the Microbial Challenge - Rising threats fromAntimicrobial Resistance, MEP Anna Rosbach
  • Antibiotic resistance: a true "One Health" issue, Christophe Buhot, President, Federation of Veterinarians of Europe (FVE)
  • Facing the AMR Challenge – a Doctor’s Perspective, Mads Koch Hansen, Rapporteur on Antimicrobial Resistance, Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME)

Follow ECDC Twitter posts about the Day, using hashtag #EAAD.

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