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After more than a decade of work to combat #antibioticresistance, @pewhealth’s antibiotic resistance project will wrap up at the end of 2024.
It has been a privilege to work alongside many of you, and we thank you for your ongoing engagement on this critical issue.
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“Wars can kill thousands, but bacteria kills millions,” Baghdad Teaching Hospital's Osama Zuhair Salman says. nytimes.com/2024/11/26/magaz…
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.@LADeptHealth has been integrating antibiotic-use metrics into required reporting for Medicaid providers.
"If you don’t measure, you can’t monitor. You don’t know what you don’t know," Kolynda Parker says. pew.org/4fKnbIQ
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After more than a decade of work to combat #antibioticresistance, @pewhealth’s antibiotic resistance project will wrap up at the end of 2024.
It has been a privilege to work alongside many of you, and we thank you for your ongoing engagement on this critical issue.
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We are grateful to each of you for your interest and attention to #antibioticresistance, and we look forward to seeing the progress to come in the fight against #superbugs.
Thanks for everything,
The @saveantibiotics team
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Recently, @pewtrusts commissioned a team of independent experts to review the #antibiotic resistance project’s work over nearly 10 years in the field.
Here's what it found: pewtrusts.org/en/trust/archi…
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Save Antibiotics retweeted
One of my favorite @MathematicaNow 2024 podcasts: Taking stock of how public health data gets reported in all 50 states+DC, w/a focus on the role of state policy in requiring/encouraging faster, more complete reporting. @pewtrusts @CSTEnews @AIRA_ImmReg mathematica.org/blogs/modern…
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Save Antibiotics retweeted
NEW: A first-of-its kind nationwide assessment of public health data reporting policies & practices.
Accurately, timely data is essential for improving & protecting public health throughout the U.S. Our report looks at how we tackle data across 50 states. pew.org/3OUNIrE
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To keep #antibiotic makers afloat, researchers and their output need to be valued "not based on the volume of sales, but on their value to society", @koutterson says. globalhealthnow.org/2024-11/…
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"We need to have a plan," @UW's Dr. Paul Pottinger says of the growing threat of #AMR. publicnewsservice.org/2024-1…
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“Bacteria have one aim in life. They’re going to survive. They survived before us and unfortunately, they might be surviving millions of years after us," @HananBalkhy says. news.un.org/en/story/2024/11…
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"Imagine what happens if you get an infection from going into the garden or having a baby or going to the dentist. These are things that can bring your life to an end if #antibiotics are not effective," @miaamormottley warns. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
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The current pipeline for new antibiotics is “on the verge of collapse,” @koutterson warns. globalhealthnow.org/2024-11/…
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A financial incentive policy implemented by the Japanese government in 2018 was associated with a nearly 20% reduction in antibiotic prescriptions in young children, without adverse health outcomes, researchers report. cidrap.umn.edu/antimicrobial…
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“Antibiotic-resistant infections impact real patients that we take care of in our health care setting," @VUMCchildren's Dr. Ritu Banerjee says. news.vumc.org/2024/11/08/pat…
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“It was horrible," @UKAMREnvoy says of watching her goddaughter die from an #AMR infection. theguardian.com/society/2024…
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“If you dismantle the health infrastructure of urban life, you can take more lives than bombs could ever do,” says Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah, who has studied the link between war and #AMR. nytimes.com/2024/11/26/magaz…
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