2009

Dear




Colleague
,

Warmest wishes for a healthy and happy holiday season!

This month, in lieu of a feature guest column, we would like to focus readers’ attention on the eight recommendations in the recently-posted Drug Resistance Working Group (DRWG) consultation draft report. We invite you to view these recommendations along with a set of critical questions. We hope that you will provide feedback and thank you in advance.

Congratulations to our colleagues at ReAct for their work in getting EU health ministers to adopt a strong policy directive on the need for innovative incentives to encourage development of effective antibiotics.

As always, we welcome your thoughts at drug_resistance@cgdev.org.

Regards,

Rachel Nugent
Deputy Director for Global Health
Center for Global Development

Monthly Guest Column

The DRWG’s consultation draft report proposes eight recommendations for global action on drug resistance. We will continue refining these recommendations so that the final report prioritizes the most effective and feasible actions for global organizations to take against drug resistance. To do this, we need your input here. To get you started, we have included some of the important questions we are still exploring about what works to combat resistance. We welcome your responses.

READ THE RECOMMENDATIONS AND RELATED QUESTIONS

In the News

Bacteria (Besides TB)

• Concerns about drug-resistant salmonella in Africa (New York Times): Explicatory video (Sanger Institute)
• Multidrug resistant pathogens – UK worries (The Daily Telegraph)
• US: the potential to reduce health care costs by limiting access to antibiotics (Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel)

Malaria

• Worrying evidence of artemisinin-resistant malaria in Vietnam and Burma (Wired Science)
• The need for more malaria R&D (PR Newswire)

Featured VIDEO

• View a series on TB and MDR-TB in Pakistan.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

PARTNER RESOURCES

• New comprehensive analysis: “Antimicrobial Resistance in Developing Countries” edited by Anibal Sosa of APUA. Preview and/or order

• The BMGF’s Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative has launched a new point-of-care diagnostics grant opportunity and is accepting letters of inquiry December 1 through February 16, 2010. Learn more

RECENT/UPCOMING EVENTS

• View proceedings from the 49^th ICAAC (San Francisco, September 12-15, 2009)

• Submit an abstract to the 110^th Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology before the January 11-14, 2010 deadline (San Diego, May 23-27, 2010)

• Submit an abstract to the International AIDS Conference before the February 10 deadline (Vienna, July 18-23, 2010)