Here you find links to articles, reports and short videos - to learn more about the impact of Antimicrobial Resistance on Universal Health Coverage, the Sustainable Development Goals and the urgent need to find ways to finance efforts to manage antimicrobial resistance. Scroll down to find all material!
ReAct policy brief
This policy brief shows why antimicrobial resistance seriously threatens achieving universal health coverage, but also how their respective policies go hand in hand.
Video
Without managing Antimicrobial Resistance sustainable financing of Universal Health Coverage will be difficult. See video UHC <3 AMR – Five Steps Forward.
Article
One of the hallmark objectives of Universal Health Coverage is the provision of quality care to improve the health of those receiving it. Effective antibiotics and antibiotic resistance are interlinked with a number of important dimensions regarding patient safety.
Video
What happens if you incorporate Antimicrobial Resistance concerns in to Universal Health Coverage? It raises the quality of care. Universal Health Coverage and concerns of Antimicrobial Resistance are linked.
Article
End July ReAct Africa, together with South Centre, arranged its annual conference, bringing stakeholders on antimicrobial resistance in the Africa region together. This year’s theme was antimicrobial resistance and the link to Universal Health Coverage and Sustainable Development Goals. Three key takeaways from insights by experts in antimicrobial resistance and universal health coverage from 33 different countries.
Videos
Three short interviews on Antimicrobial Resistance and Universal Health Coverage from the ReAct Africa Conference held in July 2019 with 120 participants from 33 countries.
Quotation cards
Quotation cards free to download and use. Made for foremost for social media, but can be used in presentations or other material. Most of the quotes focus on Antimicrobial Resistance and Universal Health Coverage, but some with focus on health, finance, governance and sustainable development.
ReAct report
Working antibiotics have given us a huge boost in quality of life over the last nine decades, but their importance and value is overlooked. Antibiotics play a crucial role in many more areas of life than most people imagine. This report by ReAct and Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation looks at the state of global development when the drugs don’t work and a post-antibiotic era sets in. The report shows how antibiotic resistance is a global development problem by highlighting existing data and people’s experiences.
Video
Antibiotics are starting to lose their effectiveness due to infections caused by resistant bacteria. Its consequences will be far-reaching for the development of societies. See short video how several of the Sustainable Development Goals will be affected by Antimicrobial Resistance.
Infographics
Infographics with facts from the ReAct report: When The Drugs Don’t Work – Antimicrobial Resistance as a Sustainable Development Problem. Free to download and use.
Article
In a public consultation, the Inter-agency Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goals indicators (IAEG-SDG) proposed an AMR-specific indicator. This is the first suggested AMR-specific indicator among potential changes to the metrics tracking progress on the United Nations’ SDGs. The World Health Organization-proposed indicator on AMR is among the potential changes to Goal 3 (Good Health and Wellbeing). This proposed indicator is timely and necessary for the success for the SDGs which aim to address global challenges.
Article
On the margins of World Health Assembly that took place in Geneva in May 2019 ReAct together with Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation and South Centre organized an event on antibiotic resistance.
Article
In partnership with South Centre, ReAct Africa hosted its 3rd annual conference in 2018. Beginning November, this regional conference brought together 67 participants from 22 African countries. A truly One Health representation. The three-day meeting unpacked, in greater detail, how antimicrobial resistance relates with the sustainable development goals.
ReAct meeting report
It is widely acknowledged that the consequences of antimicrobial resistance will negatively affect and potentially jeopardize the progress and achievement of sustainable development. In December 2018, ReAct and the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation hosted a meeting in Uppsala, Sweden, inviting around 20 experts in the field of antimicrobial resistance and global health, to discuss funding for the global crisis of antimicrobial resistance.
Video
How should should urgently needed work on Antimicrobial Resistance be funded? Five ways to help AMR funding.
Article
Investing to deliver on the objectives of the Global Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance is urgently needed. The return of economic and health investments in managing antimicrobial resistance will be large and are needed across several sectors to minimize the negative impact of antimicrobial resistance.
The current lack of a ‘go-to-place’ for funding the implementation of National Action Plans on Antimicrobial Resistance poses high risks in weakening global political momentum and delaying urgent actions.
