Pioneering efforts to combat antimicrobial resistance.
Filmed on location in Tanzania, Colombia, South Africa, India, Ghana and Nigeria, this project was created to help stem the spread of drug-resistant superbugs. Recommissioned 4 times by the Wellcome Trust, each film is designed to influence governments, policymakers, global health partners, as well as scientists and public communities. This series of original, impactful films was shown at the UN General Assembly, World Health Assembly, at meetings of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and others.
Tanzania.
In Tanzania, rural pharmacists are being empowered to educate their clients on the proper use of antibiotics and are changing the way people seek treatment.
Colombia.
In Colombia, people are pioneering a way to effect change on antimicrobial resistance. Scientists are working with farmers to create a surveillance network, tracking the spread of antimicrobial resistance in poultry farms and figure out how that might be affecting human health.
South Africa.
Antimicrobial resistance is one of the great health challenges of our time but people are not standing idle in the face of the threat, South Africa’s hospitals are just one example of pioneers leading the way to #StopSuperbugs.
India.
The pace at which new antibiotics are developed and approved globally has dropped dramatically over the past 30 years. Even today, with the growing sense of a looming crisis, there aren't many new treatments being developed. But in India, new ways to provide public funding, coupled with innovative start-ups, may help to change that.
Ghana.
In Ghana, traditional dancers are using their art as a pioneering way to stop antibiotic resistance, otherwise known as superbugs.
Nigeria.
In Nigeria, labourers and farmers in local rural communities have been mistakenly using antibiotics as painkillers. The inappropriate or overuse of antibiotics in this way can speed up the rise of drug resistance. To tackle this, researchers in the Department of Microbiology at Bayero University, Kano, started an outreach programme to inform students and communities in the area about antimicrobial resistance and the need to use antibiotics appropriately.
