Antibiotic resistance – can we do better?
Copenhagen, Denmark
| Date: |
7 April, 2011 |
| Time: |
14:00 to 16:00 Doors open at 13:30 |
| Venue: |
World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe
Scherfigsvej 8,
2100 Copenhagen |
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Antibiotics should be used only when they are needed and not otherwise. However, they are still over-used and misused by health professionals, patients, farmers, and vets.
Concern is growing that increasingly it is impossible to treat or prevent bacterial infections, and we will return to a pre-antibiotic era. What is the true picture in Denmark and Europe?
On Thursday 7 April 2011, World Health Day, the WHO Regional Office for Europe is holding a scientific seminar on antibiotic resistance in collaboration with the Statens Serum Institute, to examine what is being done and what can make a difference.
We invite you to participate in this event which is open for the first 125 persons to register for this event. Students are also welcome to register for this event.
Registration
Programme
| 14:00 |
Welcome |
| 14:05-14:20 |
Antibiotic resistance and the main determinants in Europe
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm |
| 14:20-14:30 |
Towards a European Regional Strategy on the containment of antibiotic resistance
WHO Regional Office for Europe |
| 14:30- 14:45 |
Prudent use of antibiotics in Denmark
Jenny Dahl Knudsen, University of Copenhagen, Hvidovre Hospital |
| 14:45-15:00 |
Use of antibiotics in general practice
Lars Bjerrum, University of Copenhagen |
| 15:00-15:15 |
Teaching hand hygiene
Jette Holt, Statens Serum Institut |
| 15:15-15:30 |
Observations on compliance of hand hygiene
Elisabeth Lund, Infection Control, Aarhus University Hospital |
| 15:30-15:40 |
Discussion |
| 15:40-- |
Coffee-break with demonstration exercise on hand hygiene |
