China and Sweden in collaboration
against Antibiotic Resistance

On April 28, Swedish minister of public health Maria Larsson, visited her Chinese colleague Huang Jiefu, vice health minister, in Beijing to work out a joint strategy to halt antibiotic resistance. A large number of Swedish and Chinese experts participated in the meeting.

The two countries now set out to launch a joint initiative to address this serious problem. It is however not only to exchange knowledge and help to each other, there is also an ambition to promote the issue in international contexts.

Read more in the pressrelease from the meeting

The Chinese-Swedish working group on Antibiotic Resistance, meeting at the Chinese Ministry of Health.

Videoclips from the meeting

03 mins 50 secs

China-Sweden Conference Meeting with health ministers and experts on antibiotic resistance

01 min 04 secs

Interview sound bites Swedish and Chinese experts on antibiotic resistance

Presentations by the Swedish expert delegation

The Global Problem of Antibiotic Resistance and the Swedish Approach (pdf 360 KB)
Prof Otto Cars, Director Strama, Sweden

Antibiotic use and resistance in Swedish hospital care (pdf 139 KB)
Mats Erntell, MD PhD, County Medical Officer

A Swedish wworking model for containment of antibiotic resistance (pdf 180 KB)
Johan Struwe, Associate professor, Strama and the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control

Organization of Swedish healthcare with special reference to prevention of communicable disease and the rational use of drugs (pdf 102 KB)
Dr Anders Tegnell, Director, Communicable Disease Prevention and Control,
The National Board of Health and Welfare

Rational Use of Drugs (RUD) Health systems perspectives (pdf 105 KB)
Göran Tomson, Professor International Health Systems Research, Karolinska Institutet

The Critical need of new antibiotics (pdf 133 KB)
Prof Otto Cars, Uppsala University, Sweden

Various photos from the meeting

Meeting the Challenge of Antibiotic Resistance, The Swedish Experience

Background documents for exploratory discussion on opportunities for Chinese-Swedish collaboration in the area of antibiotic resistance April 2009 Download english version with complements in chinese (pdf 4 MB)