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The
Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics (APUA) was founded
as a non-profit global organization in 1981 to contain antibiotic
resistance and improve antibiotic effectiveness. APUA’s
mission is to strengthen society’s defenses against infectious
disease by promoting appropriate antimicrobial access and use
and controlling antimicrobial resistance on a worldwide basis.
With affiliated chapters
in over 60 countries, many in the developing world, APUA stands
as the world’s leading organization conducting antimicrobial
resistance research, education, capacity building and advocacy
at the global and grassroots levels.
Antimicrobials are uniquely societal drugs because each individual
patient use can propagate resistant organisms affecting entire
health facilities, the environment and the community. Wide-scale
antimicrobial misuse and related drug resistance is challenging
infectious disease treatment and healthcare budgets worldwide.
APUA’s goal is to improve antimicrobial policy and clinical
practice worldwide so as to preserve the power of these lifesaving
agents. Our programs seek to reduce drug resistance and improve
the effectiveness of treatment for acute bacterial diseases, tuberculosis,
AIDS and malaria in the industrial and developing world.
APUA
is pleased to partner with several project collaborators. Find
more information on our corporate members and project collaborators
here.
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Public
Policy & Press Information
Healthcare consumers can help by understanding antibiotics and following
their doctors advice. more--> |
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Healthcare
Practitioner Information
Healthcare practitioners can help by more careful diagnosis and
prescription of antibiotics. more--> |
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Research
& Surveillance
Researchers can help by producing data to improve healthcare practice
and public health policy. more-->
ROAR,
an international research network and website on reservoirs of antibiotic
resistance (ROAR) in non-pathogenic bacteria. |
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Ecology
Review of the relationships between antibiotic use in humans, animals,
agriculture, and aquaculture and the effects on humans, animals,
and the environment. more-->
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International
Antibiotic resistance: a global issue. Because of cross-continental
travel of both humans and goods, antibiotic resistant bacteria are
spread from one country to another. more--> |
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Nominations
for the 2008 APUA Leadership Award are now being accepted.
APUA
presented it's 2007 award to ICDDR,B.
You can find a list of past Leadership Awardees here.
The
Gates Foundation now accepting grant proposals for
Grand Challenges Explorations
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APUA
Public
Policy Actions
News
in Brief
Dr. Phil on MRSA
The
Invisible Enemy in Iraq
March, 2008
"THE
IRAQIBACTER" Medical experts wary of dangerous germ now striking
war wounded troops. Margaret Davidson; The American Legion magazine
TB
Patients Chafe Under Lockdown in South Africa By CELIA
W. DUGGER-New York Times--Published: March 25, 2008
March
12, 2008
Study
Disputes Need for Widespread Hospital MRSA Testing
Antibiotics
Questioned in Care at Life's End By NICHOLAS BAKALAR- Published:
March 4, 2008-New York Times
February
12, 2008
Resistant
Meningitis Strain Found
January
9, 2008
Wrestling
with the risk of MRSA No cases reported thus far, as coaches and
athletes focus on prevention by John Y. Wehmueller | Staff
Writer Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2008 Gazette.net (see word document)
January 8, 2008
The
Claim: Antibiotics Will Beat a Sinus Infection By ANAHAD O'CONNOR
Published:- NYT health
November
27, 2007
Many
Superbugs Exist
November
20, 2007
Scientists
Decode Genes of Resistant TB
October 31, 2007
New Survey Finds That Over Half of MRSA Patients Report Having Received No Information About the Disease form Health Care Providers
October
30, 2007
Germ Fighters May Lead to Hardier
Germs
October
23, 2007
Bad
Bugs, Few Drugs
October 17, 2007
Problem of Hospital Acquired Infections, Antibiotic Resistance Growing
September 23, 2007
Threat From the New E. coli
September 13, 2007
CA-MRSA The
New Sports Pathogen Christina Kurkowski 9/13/07 Orthopaedic
Nursing September/October 2007 Volume 26 Number 5
August 24, 2007
Fighting Superbugs-
Congressional Quarterly
more
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