The Global-PPS team is excited to announce the release of new resources for the outpatient module, including tutorial videos and real-time feedback reports. The tutorial videos explain how to use the Global-PPS tool and enter your data. The real-time feedback report includes detailed personalized information on prescribing practices and quality indicators for the outpatient module of the Global-PPS.
The global fight against Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) took center stage on 26 September 2024, at the United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting on AMR (UN Headquarters, New York, USA). This silent pandemic brought world leaders together for the second time to confront AMR and laid out a roadmap of political commitments.
drive-AMS and EU-JAMRAI2, the second phase of the European Joint Action on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and Healthcare-Associated Infections, are aligning their efforts, recognizing that both initiatives share crucial goals. EU-JAMRAI2 is dedicated to assisting EU Member States in implementing targeted actions against AMR, with the ultimate goal of safeguarding public health on the continent.
As part of drive-AMS, the team at Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, is expanding their SPICE Expert Registry to Greece, Lithuania, Romania and Portugal. SPICE stands for Specialized Programme for Infectious Disease Care Everywhere
From 18 to 24 November, join us and the global community in the WHO World Antibiotic Awareness Week (WAAW). This annual campaign raises awareness about AMR and promotes best practices to reduce the emergence and spread of drug-resistant infections.
Today marks the start of the World Antibiotic Awareness Week (WAAW), an annual initiative led by WHO bringing attention to AMR and promoting best practices worldwide. This year’s campaign emphasises the importance of education and taking concrete actions to tackle this critical healthcare challenge.
The drive-AMS methodology has successfully expanded beyond Europe, reaching both Africa and Asia. After having been implemented in Tanzania, drive-AMS’s distinctive approach, which combines antimicrobial use measurement, implementation support, and behavioural change, is now also active in Indonesia.
Birutė Zablockienė博士は、リトアニアで抗菌薬スチュワードシップ（AMS）を実施しているdrive-AMSチームの中心的なメンバーの一人です。このインタビューでは、抗菌薬耐性（AMR）と闘うための彼女の仕事についての洞察と、病院の複数の部門にわたって抗菌薬を適切に使用するためにチームが直面している課題について話しています。.
Meet Shaheen Mehtar, professor of Infection Prevention and Control in South Africa. As a founding member of the Infection Control Africa Network, she has played a pivotal role in shaping infection control practices across the continent. In this interview, Prof. Mehtar discusses her work with the Global Point Prevalence Survey, the successes and challenges of implementing antimicrobial stewardship programs, and her hopes for improving IPC efforts in both hospital and outpatient settings.
In this interview, Professor Emmanuel Roilides, the country lead for the drive-AMS project in Greece, discusses his commitment to combating antimicrobial resistance. He shares the significant progress made by the Greek drive-AMS network in promoting antibiotic stewardship across hospitals, highlighting the challenges and successes encountered along the way. Professor Roilides also outlines the future goals of expanding the network and gaining broader state recognition to enhance the fight against resistant infections.
We are proud to announce that drive-AMS has been highlighted in the recent policy brief by the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, under the section “Boosting implementation of effective strategies to combat AMR.”
先駆的な病院疫学者であるビリャナ・カレビッチ博士は、感染制御と抗生物質スチュワードシップにそのキャリアを捧げてきた。このインタビューでは、ビリャナ氏が自身の仕事、セルビアとノルウェーにおける抗菌薬耐性（AMR）の課題、そして世界ポイント有病率調査（Global Point Prevalence Survey）への継続的な取り組みについて語る。.
このインタビューでは、ルーマニアのdrive-AMSネットワークのリーダーであり、感染症学の教授であるミハエラ・ラプセが、ルーマニアの状況について語った。彼女は、AMRとの闘いにおける現在進行中の取り組みと、ルーマニアにおけるプロジェクトの設立について詳しく述べている。.
In this interview, Dr. Raquel Duro, member of the Portuguese drive-AMS team, elaborates on her role within the project, the AMS interventions in her hospital and how AMR has affected patients.
The second part of the course dedicated to antimicrobial stewardship, integrated into the European drive-AMS project, recently took place.
It’s the end of our drive-AMS in-country trainings! From 15 until 18 May, the final course took place in Birštonas, Lithuania, organised by dr. Rolanda Valinteliene from the Institute of Hygiene in Vilnius and her team. The four days included presentations and workshops providing deeper insights into antimicrobial stewardship: basic requirements, objectives, prescribing patterns in Europe, quantity & quality of antimicrobial use, determinants & barriers, behavioural change and more.
Dr. Francisco Almeida from the Infection Prevention and Control and Antimicrobial Resistance Unit (UPCIRA) of São João Hospital, in Porto, Portugal, was awarded with the first prize of the AMS Certificate Programme 2022-2024 from ESCMID. He received the award for a project within the scope of drive-AMS, an antimicrobial stewardship project, with European funding, coordinated in Portugal by São João Hospital and involving 7 more national health units.
Last Friday, the annual Global-PPS meeting in collaboration with bioMérieux took place on the occasion of ESCMID Global 2024, formerly known as ECCMID. Over 100 participants attended the hybrid meeting to learn more about the project’s activities, strategies and results. It was a special edition as Global-PPS also celebrated its 10 year anniversary!
3月18日から21日にかけて、ルーマニアのdrive-AMSチームは、独自の国内トレーニングコースを開催し、重要な節目を迎えた。ミハエレ・ルプセ教授の指導の下、ルーマニアの8つの病院の代表者がクルージュに集まり、抗生物質使用を最適化するための効果的なスチュワードシップ・プログラムのあらゆる側面について、4日間にわたってプレゼンテーションとディスカッションを行った。.
サン・ジョアンがポルトガルを主導する欧州のdrive-AMSプロジェクトは、ポルトガルの保健総局（DGS）が最近立ち上げ推進した国家保健計画2030（PNS）の範囲内で、持続可能な保健協定（PaSSus）2030の第1段階を統合するために選ばれた。.
A recent study compared antimicrobial prescribing patterns in paediatric patients from three hospitals in Sanandaj, Western Iran, with paediatric patients from hospitals in Southeast Asia and Europe. Standardised 2019 Global-PPS data were used.
この洞察に満ちたインタビューでは、ヴィリニュスの衛生研究所公衆衛生技術センター長のロランダ・ヴァリンテリエネ博士が、リトアニアにおける抗菌薬耐性に対する取り組みを主導してきた経験と課題について語っている。.
このインタビューでは、ルーマニアのdrive-AMSチームのメンバーであるロクサーナ・ドブロタが、臨床薬剤師としての彼女の役割、自国のAMRを取り巻く状況、そして彼女の病院におけるAMRへの対処方法についての洞察を語っている。.
Another successful in-country training! The Greek team, led by Prof. Dr. Emmanuel Roilides from the General Hospital of Thessaloniki, organised their drive-AMS course from 22 to 24 February. Around 40 participants from 8 different hospitals took part in the training, including infectious diseases specialists, pharmacists, nurses, microbiologists and paediatricians.
Meet Ana Reis, the health psychologist who joined the Portuguese drive-AMS team. Ana elaborates on her approach to behavioural change, a key pillar of effective antimicrobial stewardship programmes.