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Data on the occurrence and spread of antimicrobial resistance in the European countries.
Transatlantic Taskforce on Antimicrobial Resistance – TATFAR 
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 WARSAW 2011 PRESENTATIONS

The Polish Presidency hosted a Joint Annual Meeting of the Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare-associated Infections (ARHAI) Networks, on 23 - 25 November 2011, in Warsaw, Poland. See the conference presentations

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Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare-associated Infections Programme 

The programme on Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare-Associated Infections (ARHAI) covers two major public health issues:

The ARHAI programme focuses on 4 areas of public health: surveillance, response and scientific advice, training and communication to address the threat of antimicrobial resistance and healthcare-associated infections.

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  SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands  

On the occasion of the WHO campaign ‘SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands, ECDC is launching:

• The slogan contest open to under- and postgraduate students. The objective is to produce a slogan that will be used to promote monitoring of hand hygiene and, in particular, the future ECDC surveillance module on compliance with good hand hygiene practices.

• The third and last wave of data collection for the ECDC point prevalence survey of healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial use in European acute care hospitals. The protocol, forms, software and corresponding manual for this point prevalence survey are now also available on ECDC’s website.

 HEALTH TOPICS

Antimicrobial resistance

Antibiotics have revolutionised the way we treat patients with bacterial infections. But they have also been liable to misuse.

Clostridium difficile infection

Clostridium difficile is an anaerobic bacterium, widely distributed in soil and intestinal tracts of animals.

Healthcare-associated infections

Approximately 4 100 000 patients are estimated to acquire a healthcare-associated infection in EU every year.

 NEWS

ECDC supports WHO “SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands” campaign
04 May 2012
Help promote ECDC surveillance module on compliance with good hand hygiene practices: join the slogan contest!
04 May 2012
ECDC Director stresses 'one health' approach to tackle antimicrobial resistance problems in humans and animals
15 Mar 2012
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