GARPNet News Volume 2, Issue 2 March 2016 In this issue: Sharing the GARP Experience at the 17th International Congress for Infectious Diseases Global Antibiotic Research and Development (GARD) Partnership Country Highlights New from CDDEP Contact Information for the GARP Network
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Sharing the GARP Experience at the 17th International Congress for Infectious Diseases (ICID) Lessons learned from laying the groundwork for national antibiotic resistance policy in India, Kenya,
time, and won’t just occur spontaneously. It requires methodological knowledge gathering across
important GARP features for success, in addition to the government taking ultimate responsibility for antibiotic resistance on behalf of the public. The panel speakers echoed these lessons, highlighting the key role the GARP situation analyses played in setting the stage for policy development. “The whole resistance program in South Africa was really catalyzed by the GARP-South Africa situation analysis conducted in 2011… it was the beginning of the response,” Marc Mendelson, a GARP working group members, CDDEP researchers and GARP country scientists and ministry officials member of the South African at the International Congress for Infectious Diseases in Hyderabad, India. Antibiotic Stewardship Program Mozambique, Nepal and South disciplines for a one-health (SAASP), told the audience. Revathi Africa through the Global Antibiotapproach. The multidisciplinary, Gunturu, Aga Khan University Hospital and GARP-Kenya working ic Resistance Partnership (GARP) group member, added “when we were shared at the CDDEP sympodid the situation analysis, we “Our current data on antbiotic sium at the 17th ICID, “Antibiotic realized a lot of things about our resistance: national actions resistance is just the tip of the national context, we realized much contribute to a global solution.” iceberg.” of what we don’t know. Our current GARP working group members and data on antibiotic resistance is just scientific experts spoke on the GARP process, while health minis- –Revathi Gunturu, Aga Khan University the tip of the iceberg.” Hospital and GARP-Kenya The relationship between GARP try speakers gave a government Working Group and health ministries differs in perspective. each country, but in each it plays a At the country level, GARP director Hellen Gelband highlighted multi-stakeholder working groups, major role, as demonstrated by the that the GARP policymaking situation analyses, and paid coor- participation of ministry represenprocess is deliberate and takes dinators have been the most tatives. “I want to recognize GARP
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