Brussels, 15 May 2024
Tomorrow, Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Stella Kyriakides, will be in London, United Kingdom upon invitation from her Majesty’s government and the Royal Society, to attend the Global Ministerial Fireside Chat at ‘The World Together Solving the Antibiotic Emergency.’
This meeting comes in advance of the September 2024 High-Level Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. It is an opportunity to build on the existing cooperation between countries to work towards an ambitious UN General Assembly Political Declaration on AMR, reinforce the One Health approach and set global commitments.
AMR costs the lives of over 35,000 people in the EU alone every year and places a significant strain on our healthcare systems. Under the EU4Health programme, EUR 50 million has been dedicated to joint action on AMR and EUR 17 million to EU revenue guarantee mechanism on newly developed antibiotics. In June 2023 the Council adopted the Commission-proposed Recommendation on stepping up EU actions to combat antimicrobial resistance in a One Health approach.
Source – EU Commission