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World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW) 2021

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It's that time of year again! November 18th - 24th is World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW) a global event supported by the WHO.

This year's slogan is "Spread Awareness, Stop Resistance" a theme which is incorporated into many WAAW events.  See here for more information WAAW_newsletter17Nov

Here are CE4AMR we started our WAAW activities a little early with our Call-to-Action on community engagement approaches in AMR research. If you missed our webinar on November 15th you can read the full Call-to-Action document here.

Workshop participants discuss Ghana's AMR challenges and priorities in human, animal and environmental health (One Health).Photo Credit: Dust Bunny

Our Call-to-Action was developed by a knowledge exchange network which includes six existing AMR research projects.

A number of open access outputs from this network will be released across WAAW, keep checking our outputs page here for more details.

You can also read more on the outcomes of stakeholder workshops which ran earlier this year in our blogs section.