Reducing HCAIs: Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance will focus on the serious threat posed by growing resistance to antibiotic treatments.
In April, the World Health Organization published a landmark report concluding that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is “no longer a serious threat for the future; it is happening right now in every region of the world and has the potential to affect anyone, of any age, in any country”. The WHO’s assistant director-general for health security, Dr Keiji Fukuda, said that “without urgent, coordinated action by many stakeholders, the world is headed for a post-antibiotic era, in which common infections and minor injuries that have been treatable for decades, can once again kill”. If nothing is done, the “implications will be devastating”, he added.
The warnings could not be more stark – in particular in highlighting the global nature of the threat and the need for each region and each country to take action. The UK Government, for its part, put in place a five-year AMR strategy last autumn, and it is against this backdrop that Govtoday will host the seventh instalment of its now well-established national Reducing HCAIs conference and exhibition series. Taking Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance as its timely theme, this latest event will take place at the Mermaid conference centre in London on 24 June 2014.
Chaired by the Telegraph journalist Joe Shute, the event will bring together key stakeholders from across the healthcare sector to debate how the advance of AMR can be halted through increased research, development and collaboration – as well as the importance of infection prevention, the preservation of current medicines and the development of new treatments and approaches to the control of HCAIs.
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