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HomeEC/ECDC/EFSA country visit to North Macedonia to advance One Health responses against antimicrobial resistance
29 January–2 February 2024
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The overall objective of this joint country visit to North Macedonia was to discuss and review the advancement of a One Health approach against AMR through: the identification of strengths and weaknesses in the current national AMR strategies, action plans and intersectoral coordination mechanisms; reviewing the capacity of the current laboratory network to detect AMR and resistance trends; documenting the situation and efforts being made on AMR surveillance, antimicrobial consumption (AMC) and HAIs; - reviewing actions related to the prudent use of antibiotics in human health, animal health, food safety as well as in the environmental sector; reviewing activities and approaches to raise awareness regarding AMR. A detailed agenda of this One Health country visit is provided in the Annex. The visit focused primarily on the AMR governance and intersectoral mechanisms to implement the One Heath approach against AMR in North Macedonia. For the human health sector, the visit focused on: the laboratory capacity to process, collect and share AMR data at the national and local level; monitoring activities on AMR and AMC; antimicrobial stewardship (AMS), treatment guidelines and prudent use of antimicrobials; IPC; communication, behavioural change interventions and awareness activities.
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- Corporate author(s): European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (EU body or agency) , European Food Safety Authority (EU body or agency)
- Personal author(s): Machowska, Anna ; Monnet, Dominique ; Mougkou, Aikaterini ; Cassini, Alessandro ; Ronat, Jean-Baptiste ; Savulescu, Camelia
- Themes: Medical and biological research , Health policy
- Subject: animal health , antimicrobial resistance , disease surveillance , European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control , European Commission , European Food Safety Authority , food security , food-borne disease , health policy , North Macedonia , report , zoonosis
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| ISSN | ISBN 978-92-9498-768-6 | DOI 10.2900/4122487 | Catalogue number TQ-01-24-024-EN-N |
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