Publications
Key publications
The TAP quick guide: a practical handbook for implementing tailoring antimicrobial resistance programmes (2021)
The Quick Guide provides a brief overview of AMR and the TAP process and walks users through the five stages of assessing feasibility, establishing a baseline understanding of issues, prioritizing topics to address, developing strategies, and implementing and evaluating interventions.
The TAP toolbox: exercises, tools and templates to support your tailoring antimicrobial resistance programmes plan (2021)
This TAP Toolbox contains a series of exercises and is aligned with the stages outlined in the TAP Quick Guide. The Toolbox is designed to be used by a TAP working group as they work through the stages outlined in the TAP Quick Guide.
Antimicrobial stewardship interventions: a practical guide (2021)
This practical guide describes 10 commonly used stewardship interventions, which promote the optimal use of antimicrobials at health care facilities. Administrators, health care leaders and front-line clinicians learn about the most common interventions, the evidence behind them, as well as important implementation considerations, particularly for low-resource settings.
Technical brief on water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH) and wastewater management to prevent infections and reduce the spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) (2020)
This WHO/FAO/OIE technical brief provides a summary of evidence and rationale for WASH and wastewater actions within AMR National Action Plans (NAPs) and sector specific policy to combat AMR.
Central Asian and European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance CAESAR Manual Version 3, 2019
This manual is an update of the first edition published in 2015 and describes the objectives, methods and organization of the Central Asian and European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance (CAESAR) network.
Evidence brief for policy. Number 6: Strengthening Romania’s health system to address antimicrobial resistance (2020)
This report is the first evidence brief for policy produced in Romania within the framework of the WHO European Evidence-informed Policy Network.
Proof-of-principle antimicrobial resistance routine diagnostics surveillance project (PoP project)
Implementation of the Proof-of-Principle routine diagnostics project for antimicrobial resistance surveillance (PoP project) assists a country in building capacity to routinely perform antibiotic susceptibility testing at local hospital laboratories and at national reference laboratory level
Antimicrobial resistance advocacy briefs
This suite of advocacy documents was created to explain how AMR affects health in different contexts and how focusing on different sectors can contribute to managing AMR.
Evaluation report: proof-of-principle routine diagnostic project for antimicrobial resistance surveillance - Georgia (2017)
The PoP study provided baseline AMR data for the main pathogens causing BSIs in the country and formed a basis for a national AMR surveillance network and participation in CAESAR. The project gave a first systematic insight into the pathogens causing BSIs and their antibiotic susceptibility in Georgia.
