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Defending our future: tackling AMR and STIs in 2024 [1]

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Date: 2024-11-18  

This antimicrobial resistance (AMR) webinar aims to present the new Enhanced Gonococcal Antimicrobial Surveillance Programme (EGASP) report with data up to December 2023, and discuss new epidemiology trends and new potential treatments. It will also be an opportunity to share experiences from the field, with a focus on affected communities.

AMR greatly affects the responses to sexually transmitted infections (STIs), not only because of the widespread resistance to most medicines used to treat Neisseria gonorrhoeae, but also because of the potential AMR found in Mycoplasma genitalium and Trichomonas vaginalis.

This webinar is part of WHO’s World AMR Awareness Week 2024.

The Global Health Sector Strategies on HIV, viral hepatitis and STIs for 2022-2030 have set a framework for countries to strengthen and expand surveillance and monitoring of treatment failures, and participate in building regional networks of laboratories to perform gonococcal culture and antimicrobial susceptibility testing. Many countries report on routine gonococcal surveillance and/or EGASP.

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