Antibiotic use has contributed significantly to many successes in human medicine and improvement in animal welfare. There is however global concern about non-regulation of antibiotics in food producing animals due to the great threat it poses to public health. This publication was co-written by Fleming Fund Fellow, Mary Nkansa.
A Protocol for Active AMR Surveillance in Poultry
This document has been prepared to assist with designing an active surveillance programme for antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in bacteria carried by healthy chickens that may contribute to AMR in humans. It is designed to strengthen a One Health approach to AMR surveillance.
The protocol is intended for use by technical specialists working in organizations involved with the Fleming Fund Grants programme; for example, government departments and institutions and country grantees implementing the programme as part of their country grant. It is designed to align with AMR surveillance guidelines prepared by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) (currently in preparation), the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) and the World Health Organization’s (WHO) GLASS, AGISAR, and Tricycle programmes (Mathieu et al., 2017).
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From Journal Articles, Fellowship Publication: Antibiotic use among poultry farmers in Ghana, Dormaa Municipality , Date: 31/12/2020
On One Health Day, we introduce the AMROH-SEA project, which is a Fleming Fund Regional Grant led by the Asia-Pacific Centre for Animal Health, University of Melbourne. This is part of the new AMR One Health series of four grants initiated in phase 2 of the Fleming Fund to support the development of national surveillance systems across the regions it operates.