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IDSA’s Faces of Antimicrobial Resistance (FAOR) report

Dear All:

This one appears to have been released on 7 Mar but it just crossed my desk today. In brief, IDSA has assembled 13 patient stories into a well-written and illustrated .pdf. The centerpiece of the paper is this graphical history of AMR shown below. Well done to IDSA for pulling these stories together in an accessible format!

John H. Rex, MD | Chief Medical Officer, F2G Ltd. | Chief Strategy Officer, CARB-X | Expert-in-Residence, Wellcome Trust. Follow me on Twitter: @JohnRex_NewAbx

The .pdf itself: http://www.idsociety.org/uploadedFiles/IDSA/FOAR/FOAR%20Report%201-up%20final.pdf
IDSA resource page: http://www.idsociety.org/Topic_Antimicrobial_Resistance/

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Pan-EU/EEA Pull incentive: A proposal by DRIVE-AB alumni!

Dear All (and with thanks to Kevin for co-authoring), In a clear and compelling policy paper, a dozen of the DRIVE-AB alumni have proposed a concept for a pan-EU/EEA Pull Incentive. To follow the plot, here are the key points as a refresh: To date, the only strong, active Pull model is the UK NHS project that

Fireside Chat with BARDA’s Branch Chief for Antimicrobials

Note: Be sure to take advantage of the BARDA Industry Day(s) event that occurs Monday-Tuesday of this coming week … see newsletter and forward calendar for details. Dear All, In what could be called Part 2 of Excellent 2023 ASM/ESCMID Talks (read the newsletter on Jen Cohen’s talk on how manufacturing underpins both access and

Japan Pulls for Pandemic Preparedness: Nikkei FT Conference

Dear All, As we discussed in the 5 Nov 2023 “Pulling for Pandemic Preparedness” newsletter, AMR is a global threat: resistance in one part of the world can suddenly appear in your hospital. As an example of that sort of threat, Jason Gale’s 30 Oct 2023 newsletter entitled “Untreatable Typhoid Should Make You Worry About Poop”

Pulling for Pandemic Preparedness

Dear All, This evening I’d like to bring together several relatively recent reports and note how all of them focus in one way or another on Pulling for Pandemic Preparedness … perhaps we can call this the Rule of 3 Ps. And as an aside, I’ll note that I learned the Rule of 4 Ps