PAHO/WHO Mandates: AMR

• CD41.R4 Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases and Antimicrobial Resistance
• CSP27.R10 Regional Policy and Strategy for ensuring quality of health care, including patient safety
• WHA51.17 Emerging and other communicable diseases: Antimicrobial Resistance
• WHA58.27 Improving the containment of antimicrobial resistance
• EB115.R6 Antimicrobial resistance: a threat to global health security

PAHO/WHO Strategic Plans: AMR

• PAHO Strategic Plan 2008-2012 
• Health Agenda for the Americas 2008-2017
• WHO Global Strategy for Containment of Antimicrobial Resistance
• Pan American Health Organization's Proposed Contribution to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) / Latin America and Caribbean Bureau's. Amazon Malaria Initiative (AMI):Project Proposal and Workplans for Years 2 & 3
• Partnerships to Contain Antimicrobial Resistance in South America: An Integrated Approach PAHO-USAID

Guidelines: Antimicrobial Resistance

• Rapid evaluation guide for hospital programs for prevention and control of nosocomial infections New!
  
• Guía para el uso correcto de los equipos automatizados para identificación bacteriana y su correspondiente prueba de susceptibilidad OPS New!
  
• Epidemiological Surveillance of Healthcare-Asociated Infections New!
  
• Sterilization Manual for Health Centers
• Manual de esterilización para centros de salud
• Técnicas de higiene de las manos: ¿Cómo se deben lavar las manos?
• Hand Hygiene Techniques: How to handrub? How to handwash?
• La friction hydro alcoolique. Comment?
• Cuando tenga que tomar antibióticos... sea inteligente

Country Profiles: Antimicrobial Resistance

• Country Profile, Bolivia: Antimicrobial Resistance

Annual Reports: Antimicrobial Resistance

2009: Latest Annual Report

Reports: Antimicrobial Resistance

• Seventh Report of Committee A, 2005
• Overcoming Antimicrobial Resistance - World Health Report on Infectious Diseases, 2000

Meeting Reports: Antimicrobial Resistance

• Recommendations of an Expert Committee: Performance Evaluation Standards for the Kirby-Bauer Antibiogram (Areas of Inhibition or Interpretation) (Santiago, Chile, 24–26 February 2003)
• Antimicrobial Resistance and rational use of antimicrobial agents (Cairo, Egypt, 30 sep-3 Oct 2002)
• Implementation Workshop on the WHO Global Strategy for Containment of Antimicrobial Resistance (Geneva, Switzerland, 25-26 nov 2002)
• Panamerican Conference in Antimicrobial Resistance in the Americas (Caballeda, Venezuela, November 1998)

Scientific Production: Antimicrobial Resistance

• Resistencia a antimicrobianos y evaluación del tratamiento combinado en la septicemia neonatal Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
• Hurrying toward Disaster? Perspectivas en Salud
• Global response to antimicrobial Resistance WHO
• The impact of antimicrobial resistance and capsular type distribution on the mortality of children under 5 years of age with invasive disease caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae. Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
• Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections in Children Journal of the American Medical Association

Collaborating Centers: Antimicrobial Resistance

• National Centres for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC) Atlanta, USA
• Brigham & Women's Hospital Boston, USA

Related Sites: Antimicrobial Resistance

• Antimicrobial resistance
• Antimicrobial resistance - Other Links
• Regional Program on Antimicrobial Resistance: Combatting Resistance to Antibiotics in the Americas
• International Health Regulations
• RAVREDA-AMI: Amazon Network for the Surveillance of Antimalarial Drug Resistance (RAVREDA) / Amazon Malaria Initiative (AMI)
• Infection control & Antimicrobial resistance PAHEF
• Drug Resistance WHO
• Antimicrobial Resistance and Nosocomial infections Public Health Agency Canada
• Priorities in Health Disease Control Priorities Project