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WHO 2023 Pipeline Update: Share Your Preclinical Antibacterial Projects!

Dear All, As you know, WHO updates their preclinical and clinical pipeline summaries at regular intervals. The most current reviews are summarized on https://amr.solutions/pathogens-and-pipelines/. These excellent summaries are invaluable for researchers of all types and are also used to inform policy work. There is now a call to for current information on antibacterial pre-clinical projects. Go here

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Raising awareness of AMR: WHO report on best approaches

Dear All, In addition to forming the inaugural WHO Task Force of AMR Survivors, the WHO has also recently released a report entitled “Awareness-raising on Antimicrobial Resistance: Report of global consultation meetings.”  The report is based on discussions at two meetings held by WHO with stakeholders from across the world. Even before opening the report,

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WHO Forming Task Force of Antimicrobial Resistance Survivors

Dear All, The WHO has announced a call for expressions of interests from AMR survivors and their caregivers to serve in the inaugural WHO Task Force of AMR Survivors! WHO are specifically looking for both (i) survivors of a drug-resistant infection and (ii) anyone who was a direct caregiver of such a patient. Their goal is

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WHO Vaccine pipeline review; CDC on impact of COVID on AMR

Dear All, WHO continues to crank out those pipeline reviews … now we have one for bacterial vaccines! Go here for the press release and here for the report. The report considers data from 2010 forward and (interestingly) provides data on both active and failed projects. The review identified 94 active preclinical candidates and 61

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WHO-FAO-OIE-UNEP survey on a multi-stakeholder AMR platform

Dear All (this newsletter experiments with an Executive Summary/Details format; let me know what you think),  (Executive Summary)  As a further support for implementation of recommendations from the UN Interagency Coordination Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (IACG AMR), the Tripartite Plus (WHO-FAO-OIE-UNEP) are seeking to create a Partnership Platform that will “engage institutions representing states, markets and

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FDA workshop on complex innovative trial designs / WHO consultancy

Dear All, First up today is a very interesting new workshop from FDA on 1-2 Sep entitled “Advancing the Development of Pediatric Therapeutics (ADEPT 7) Complex Innovative Trial Design.” In brief: “The Complex Innovative Trial Design Pilot Meeting Program (CID Program) facilitates and advances the use of complex and innovative trial designs that have the potential

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Updating WHO’s Bacterial Priority Pathogen List: Call for advisors

Dear All, Deadline: 15 August 2021: The World Health Organization (WHO) is seeking experts to serve as members of the Advisory Group on the Bacterial Priority Pathogen List (AG BPPL). A “Call for experts” document provides information about the advisory group and the expert profiles being sought for the group. The document also provides information on

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WHO seeks experts for critical antibiotics advisory group

Dear All, WHO have opened a call for experts to be part of an Advisory Group on their Critically Important Antimicrobial (CIA) List. Background: As discussed in this 12 Oct 2020 newsletter, WHO and FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) rank antibiotics to determine which can be used in animals vs. those that must preserved for

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WHO webinars: A costing/budgeting tool for National Action Plans on AMR

Dear All, WHO are really busy these days! I was interested to see that WHO are hosting a pair of webinars entitled “The WHO Costing and Budgeting Tool for National Action Plans on AMR.” The webinars have the same basic content but different time zones. Here’s the agenda for one of them: Introduction Mr Anand Balachandran

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