Antimicrobial Resistance and the Human Right to Health: A Knowledge Exchange Dialogue

Antimicrobial Resistance and the Human Right to Health: A Knowledge Exchange Dialogue

The problem of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the greatest global health challenges we face – spanning across multiple sectors, jurisdictions, and disciplines. What makes AMR so complex is that it triggers four large, interrelated problems (i.e., access, stewardship, innovation, and prevention), with action in one problem area interdependently causing the problem to shift in another problem area.
 
AMR is a key human rights issue. For those involved in AMR governance, a human rights-based approach can support and enhance the design and implementation of AMR interventions in being effective and fair. For human rights scholars working on the right to health, AMR poses a pressing challenge for how we should understand the operation of the various obligations under the right to health.
 
This half-day international workshop will collaboratively explore what a human rights-based approach to AMR might look like and how right to health entitlements around preventing infections and increasing access, stewardship, and innovation of antimicrobials might shape AMR governance. Bringing together scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers, the aim of the workshop is to foster a knowledge exchange dialogue that can help each stakeholder identify issues of relevance and further opportunities for work and collaboration around the governance of AMR.

Read the full description, including the agenda on our website.
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