Antimicrobial Stewardship for Africa

Learn how to tackle antimicrobial resistance in Africa

Communicable diseases remain to be a leading cause of death in African countries (WHO). This course will look at the threat of antimicrobial resistance in Africa and how best to tackle it.

You’ll explore the burden of antimicrobial resistance in Africa and the importance of microbiology investigations in antibiotic therapy.

You’ll learn about antibiotic misuse and overuse as a driver of antimicrobial resistance and how to develop antibiotic guidelines.

Finally, you’ll evaluate the strategies that have been implemented in African hospitals and make more effective use of antimicrobials.

This course is designed for healthcare professionals and policymakers involved in the prevention, treatment and management of infectious diseases.

• Principles of antimicrobial resistance and its causes
• Welcome and introductions
• Antimicrobial Resistance
• The global versus the African burden of resistance
• Antibiotic misuse and overuse as a driver for resistance
• Importance of microbiology investigations
• Principles of good antimicrobial prescribing
• Principles of good antimicrobial prescribing
• Antimicrobial Stewardship
• The microbiology lab
• "Doing" antimicrobial stewardship
• Doing Stewardship
• Monitoring antibiotic use
• Feeding back data to support better prescribing
• Using education and feedback to change behaviour for AMS and IPC
• Case histories