Succes for AMR Global with 'GLORIA'

AMR-Global has successfully secured co-funding from the PPP Allowance made available by Health~Holland, Top Sector Life Sciences & Health, to stimulate public-private partnerships. The programme is titled “AMR-Global: Reducinginappropriate exposure to antibiotics” (GLORIA).

AMR-Global is a Netherlands-based public-private partnership (PPP) of which KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation is a partner, that brings together experts in science, business, policy, and society to make feasible, affordable, and necessary solutions to curb antimicrobial resistance (AMR) globally. AMR is an urgent global health problem. Drug-resistant microorganisms already account for a silent pandemic resulting in an estimated 700,000 deaths a yearglobally, a figure that could rapidly increase to 10 million deaths each year by 2050 if no action is taken. A comprehensive global strategy towards solving AMR is needed to achieve equitable health, which is one of the mainobjectives of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

The recently awarded GLORIA programme aims to reduce and prevent inappropriate exposure to antibiotics, in order to prevent the development of antibiotic resistance, through two lines of research. The Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (AIGHD) and the Amsterdam University Medical Center will lead the first line of research focused on understanding and generating evidence on the impact of rotavirus vaccination (RVV) on antibiotic usage in infants in Africa.

Source: KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation