European Antibiotic Resistance Awareness Day Herman Goossens University of Antwerp, Belgium

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European AntibioticResistance Awareness
DayHerman GoossensUniversity of Antwerp,
Belgium
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• Can we turn the clock?
• YES!

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First Belgian Campaign (1999 - 2000)
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Outpatient Antibiotic Use in Belgium in PID
1997-2006
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Outpatient Antibiotic Use in Belgium in EURO,
1997-2006
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Antibiotic Resistance of S. pneumoniae in
Belgium. 1995 - 2006
National Reference Centre S. pneumoniae
(University of Leuven)
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Antibiotic Resistance of S. pyogenes in Belgium.
2001 - 2006
National Reference Centre S. pyogenes (University
of Antwerp)
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European Antibiotic Resistance Day Reflections

• Needs careful preparation and planning (many
  awareness days, without a vision and a mission)
• Should target general public AND focus on theme
  (children, day care centres, nursing homes,
  over-the-counter use, etc)
• Not against (big) pharma launch of new
  antimicrobial, new diagnostic test, new vaccine
• Opportunity for DG SANCO, DG Research, etc, to
  launch new surveillance and research findings
  (EARSS, ESAC, eBUG, BURDEN, GRACE, MOSAR)
• Opportunity to advertise Europe
• The EU should continue to play a leading role in
  the world to fight antibiotic resistance

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• The European Dream emphasizes community
  relationships over individual autonomy, cultural
  diversity over assimilation, quality of life over
  the accumulation of wealth, sustainable
  development over unilateral material growth, deep
  play over unrelenting toil, universal human
  rights and the rights of nature over property
  rights, over global cooperation over the
  unilateral exercise of power
• From The European Dream, by Jeremy Rifkin