Animicrobial resistance

ILRI News on AMR

08 Apr 2019

Overuse and misuse of antibiotics – a problem driven by the world’s poor and rich alike

Kibera slum alley (photo via Flickr/Ninara) As reported this week by Andrew Jacobs and Matt Richtel in the New York Times , ‘Kibera residents are prodigious consumers of antibiotics’. Kibera area, one of Africa’s largest urban slums, is located in Nairobi, Kenya, with a population of around one...

ILRI clippings

15 Mar 2019

Ekta Patel

Drug resistance could make millions of people poorer

Jimmy Smith (right) and Ochieng’ Ogodo (SciDev.net). A CGIAR Antimicrobial Resistance Hub to help integrate and channel research and development efforts in tackling antimicrobial resistance was launched at ILRI Nairobi, Kenya, 21-22 February 2019 (photo credit: ILRI/Paul Karaimu). As reported this...

AgHealth blog

21 Feb 2019

Tezira Lore

New research partnership to tackle the global problem of #antimicrobialresistance

Sheep market in Doyogena, Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Zerihun Sewunet). To tackle a growing problem of rising antimicrobial resistance in low- and middle-income countries, CGIAR, a global research partnership for a food-secure future, is forming an international hub to help integrate and channel...

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Publications on AMR

Presentation

Published2019

Regional symposium on pig research and ILRI One Health activities updates Q1 2019

Poster

Published2019

Antimicrobial use in smallholder livestock systems in Ethiopia

Presentation

Published2019

Antimicrobial Resistance Hub

Poster

Published2019

Antimicrobial Resistance Hub: A global research and development partnership to reduce agriculture-associated antimicrobial resistance

Journal Article

Published2019

Antimicrobial resistant Escherichia coli isolates detected in raw milk of livestock in pastoral areas of northern Kenya

Poster

Published2019

Antimicrobial use in smallholder pig production systems in Uganda

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ILRI Projects on AMR

Feb 2018Jan 2020

Health and antibiotics in Vietnamese pig production

Vietnam’s economy and population are growing rapidly. Production and consumption of animal products are increasing even faster. To manage pig diseases and increase meat production, farmers are turning to antibiotics and other antimicrobials, creating a hotbed for resistance to antibiotic drugs...