WAAAR124 AMR CONTROL 2015
About WAAAR
The Non-Governmental Organization ACdeBMR (L'Alliance
contre le Développement des Bactéries Multirésistantes aux
Antibiotiques) was constituted on 2 December 2011 in
France. Subsequently, as its work became more
internationally focused, it adopted the English name it is now
known by: "The World Alliance Against Antibiotic
Resistance" (WAAAR).
WAAAR is registered in Paris, France. From the start it has
had strong bonds with French speaking Africa, with many
distinguished African supporters, such as Benin's Minister of
Health, Dorothée Kinde Gazard, MD, PhD, who had been
very active in the promotion of high quality safe health-care
in Africa, and who organized an inter-ministerial conference
on that subject (1).
Board members
The Board Members are Dr Céline Pulcini, Vice-President,
Jean-Pierre Hermet, Dr Joel Leroy, Garance Upham, and Dr
Jean Carlet, President.
Membership
The 730 members of WAAAR are physicians, hospital
managers, scientific researchers, hygiene nurses, patients
and patients organizations, economists and interested
persons, from over 55 countries.
Drawning on the skills and experience of its members
WAAAR's expertize ranges widely from antibiotic
stewardship for family physicians and hospital managers, for
protecting and prevention control, to water and sanitation
to protect populations from the spread of drug resistant
bacteria, vetenarians, food quality experts, researchers and
representatives of patient and consumer groups.
The Paris Declaration
In June 2014, the WAAAR initiated the Paris Declaration
(see below) which enlisted the support of over 90 scientific
societies, up to 145 societies or institutes including ACCP,
ATS, CDC-USA, ESCMID, ESICM, IDSA, SCCM, ISID, ISC and
SPILF.
WAAAR is among the largest network along with REACT
or APUA, of people actively working to make the world safe
for human beings in the "post-antibiotic era", to quote the
Director-General of the World Health Organization, Dr
Margaret Chan.
Actions: National and International
France
Intenive lobbying and meetings with high level officials,
resulting in a national Décret sur les Référents, and the
THE WORLD ALLIANCE AGAINST
ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE (WAAAR):
A MAJOR PLAYER IN THE GLOBAL
DRIVE TO PROTECT HUMAN HEALTH
"Our Alliance has several important strengths: a multidisciplinary and multiprofessionnal structure including
veterinary medicine, strong involvment from consumers, participation from politicians, parliamentarians and
deputies, global programmes including antibiotic stewardship, infection control, use of old and recent
diagnostic tools, research, and upgrading of vaccination programmes, all with the official support from many
professionnal societies, from many different countries and other related bodies. "
www.waaar.org