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Health Care Without Harm Asia, in partnership with Health Care Without Harm Europe, will be co-hosting the webinar Antimicrobial Resistance: The Environmental Impacts on November 3, 5PM (Manila Time).

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) develops when microorganisms (which include bacteria, parasites, viruses, and fungi) become resistant to antimicrobial drugs, leading to treatment becoming ineffective, infections persisting, and an increased risk of infections spreading.

Each year, antimicrobial-resistant infections lead to 700,000 deaths worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) describes antibiotic resistance as the single greatest challenge in terms of infectious diseases today, which represents a threat for both rich and poor countries.

Because of AMR's threat to public health, Asia Pacific governments have vowed to fight AMR during a World Health Organization Health Ministers' Meeting last April in Tokyo. Factors such as rapid economic development and socio-demographic and cultural changes, coupled with the health status, puts the region's population at higher risk for emerging drug-resistant infections, evident by the spread of multidrug resistant strains of malaria and tuberculosis.

AMR is mostly caused by the inappropriate use and overuse of antibiotics in humans and animals, but increasingly evidence shows that waste pharmaceuticals from excretion and disposal, including effluent from the pharmaceutical manufacturing process, is a concern in the development of resistance.

To date, most of the global actions in place to tackle the spread of AMR don’t take into account this aspect of antimicrobials released into the environment.

During this webinar you will:

a. Learn about antibiotic pollution and waste;
b. Learn about recent findings from India regarding antibiotic discharges in rivers from manufacturers and new mechanisms by which resistance spreads in the environment;
c. Learn about sustainable antibiotics – how to support the proper and effective use of antibiotics and their responsible production;
d. Find out how the pharmaceutical industry is addressing the environmental pollution that leads to AMR, and
e. Learn about the best practices in managing infectious waste at hospital level.

Speakers

• Johan Bengtsson-Palme, Researcher, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
• Lucas Wiarda, Global Marketing Director & Head of Sustainable Antibiotics Program, DSM Sinochem Pharmaceuticals
• Sister Mercilyn Jabel, Pharmacist, Saint Paul Hospital Cavite (Philippines)

Date and Time (Check your timezone)

November 3, 2016

10:00 AM Central European Time

2:45 PM Kathmandu

4:00 PM Jakarta

5:00 PM Manila, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Taipei

8:00 PM Sydney

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