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Grant call 2024 now open
We are pleased to announce that our grant application is open from March 25th to May 5th. Our focus is to find the next generation of researchers and healthcare professionals dedicated to combating antibiotic resistance. As highlighted by the World Health Organization...
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Thomas har fått revansch på livet – nu vill han ge tillbaka
- Jag känner att jag vill ge något tillbaka, jag vill ge någonting till framtida generationer. Jag vill bidra till det goda samhället. Så svarar Thomas Grylin på frågan om varför han hörde av sig till PAR Foundation för att få hjälp att skriva in stiftelsen i sitt...
“Antibiotika är mitt arbetsredskap”
Sverige är ett föregångsland i arbetet mot antibiotikaresistens, men även här ökar de resistenta infektionerna. Infektionsläkare Anna Nordlander berättar om sina erfarenheter. Anna Nordlander är biträdande överläkare på infektionskliniken vid Karolinska...
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Grant call 2024 now open
We are pleased to announce that our grant application is open from March 25th to May 5th. Our focus is to find the next generation of researchers and healthcare professionals dedicated to combating antibiotic resistance. As highlighted by the World Health Organization...
PAR Fall Webinar series 2023: Exploring Antimicrobial Resistance and Health Innovations
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global health crisis that is growing more urgent by the day. As bacteria develop resistance to antibiotics, common infections can become deadly. In response to this crisis, we are organising a series of webinars in September and...
PAR Foundation’s Grant Call 2023: Empowering Innovators and young advocates to Mitigate the Impact of AMR
In a world grappling with the looming threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), PAR Foundation remains dedicated to ensuring that antibiotics work now and in the future. On June 4, 2023, we announced the winners of the Grant Call for 2023. These exceptional winners...
Press Release Grant Winners 2023
PRESS RELEASE: PAR Foundation Reveals Winners of Grant Call 2023 for AMR Research and Education InitiativesPAR Foundation is delighted to announce the recipients of its highly anticipated Grant Call for 2023. After careful evaluation and consideration, the foundation...
AMR Stewardship in Ghana: The PARSTREP Team’s Efforts to Combat Streptococcus pneumoniae Infection in the Elderly
Streptococcus pneumoniae is a leading cause of pneumonia, a type of respiratory tract infection, particularly among the elderly population, who are often immunocompromised. Pneumococcal bacteremia occurs in about 25%–30% of patients with pneumococcal pneumonia which...
The Fight Against Antimicrobial Resistance in Ghana: Insights from a Nursing Home Study
Antimicrobial resistance is a serious health issue that is becoming increasingly prevalent in Ghana and the general population is increasingly becoming aware. This can be attributed to the implementation of the National Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance, which...
Tackling the Global Threat of Tuberculosis: Advancements in Immune-Enhancing Therapies
"The immune system is critical in fighting tuberculosis but sometimes needs help. Immune-enhancing therapies offer new hope by strengthening the body's defences against the infection." – Susanna Brighenti Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the most fatal...
Breaking the Silence: How OAZIS Health is Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance in Rwanda
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a serious global health issue that is still overlooked in many parts of the world, especialy in developping countries. However, OAZIS Health is changing that narrative in Rwanda. Since 2020, through the annual World AMR Awareness Week...
ReAct (Action on Antibiotic Resistance) Africa mobilizing youth in Africa for action on Antimicrobial Resistance
Antimicrobial Resistance is a global health threat that requires the involvement of multi-stakeholders using a one health approach. Students are key change agents in addressing AMR. It is therefore important that we create, mentor and support knowledgeable and...
PAR Grant Enables Cutting-Edge Research on Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC)
As much as we love to travel, nothing ruins a trip like a bout of diarrhea. While often dismissed as a minor inconvenience, it can be a serious problem in endemic areas, where it can cause severe dehydration and even death in young children. Enterotoxigenic...
Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance through the One Health Approach
A one-health approach to antimicrobial resistance. Image Credit: Nature Antimicrobial resistance remains a global health challenge, not just for humans, but also for animals and the environment. Antimicrobial resistance occurs when pathogens develop immunity to...
Building Awareness about Antibiotics and AMR among farmers in the states of Haryana and Punjab in North India
Jaspreet Mahindroo visited Milner Centre of Evolution – University of Bath as part of her PhD studies at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh in India. Jaspreet was able to characterize her Campylobacter genomes and...
Making a Difference: The Impact of the 6-Month AMR Ambassador Program in Africa
Image credit: SAS-Africa “Our AMR Ambassadorial program started in July 2022. It was a program designed for young people passionate about changing the negative narrative about antimicrobial resistance in the African region and the world at large.” - Daniel...
PAR Foundation Impact Report 2021
PAR Foundation has now published our first Impact Report, giving an overview of finished and ongoing projects as well as the reasoning underlying our assessments of how we can maximize our impact. Click here to download PAR Foundation Impact Report 2021 Related...
Future Leaders Against AMR programme receives funding from PAR Foundation
Anna Govett, 21, has just graduated with a degree in politics and international relations from the University of Cambridge. During the upcoming year she will organize a virtual programme to support students and young professionals from all over the world who, like...
Grantees 2021: Funding for projects in Ghana, Portugal and Sweden
PAR Foundation grants a total of three million SEK (approximately EUR 300 000) to three different projects in Ghana, Portugal and Sweden in their first international grant call. The projects adress important aspects of how to prevent common infections among elderly...
PAR Foundation teams up with Students for Global Health Cambridge to deliver an AMR training programme
The training programme, named “Become an Antibiotic Ally Against AMR”, was developed by three students from Students for Global Health- Cambridge (SfGH): Anna Govett, Christine Agbenu and Anya Webber in collaboration with PAR Foundation.
Thomas got his life back – now he wants to give back to society
- I feel that I want to give something back, I want to give something to future generations. I want to contribute to a better society. These words are Thomas Grylins’ response to the question of why he contacted PAR Foundation for assistance to include the foundation...
Thomas har fått revansch på livet – nu vill han ge tillbaka
– Jag känner att jag vill ge något tillbaka, jag vill ge någonting till framtida generationer. Jag vill bidra till det goda samhället.
Så svarar Thomas Grylin på frågan om varför han hörde av sig till PAR Foundation för att få hjälp att skriva in stiftelsen i sitt testamente.
New collaboration between PAR Foundation and the Global AMR R&D Hub
– The collaboration with PAR Foundation is an excellent example for how the Dynamic Dashboard and the work of the Global AMR R&D Hub can support funders and stakeholders in the AMR R&D field more broadly, says Dr Elmar Nimmesgern, who leads the work of the Global AMR R&D Hub from their offices in Germany.
Opinion: Resistance could pose the greatest threat to our health
Debate article by The Foundation to Prevent Antibiotic Resistance, published in one of Sweden’s major daily newspapers Svenska Dagbladet 18 November 2020.
A new approach to prevent infections in vulnerable people could radically reduce the need for antibiotic treatment
Peter Bergman, one of the researchers that has received funding from PAR Foundation, is investigating how novel compounds could trigger the immune response to treat or even prevent infections. This approach has potential to dramatically reduce the need for antibiotic treatment and a very low risk of driving resistance.
“Antibiotika är mitt arbetsredskap”
Sverige är ett föregångsland i arbetet mot antibiotikaresistens, men även här ökar de resistenta infektionerna. Infektionsläkare Anna Nordlander berättar om sina erfarenheter.
Iida
Iida Iida was scheduled for a surgery in the digestive tract, that had been planned for over a year to address constant inflammations in the digestive tract caused by a condition called Crohn’s disease. Iida had been told that she could expect to be home about a week...
Duda
Duda When Sofia Raquel gave birth to her second child Duda, concerns that had arisen during the pregnancy were confirmed to be true: the baby boy was diagnosed with a disease called muscular dystrophy. Muscular dystrophy is a muscle disorder for which there is no...
Veronica
Veronica When Veronica was 36 years old she was living with her husband in Portobello, Edinburgh. One day she had what she thought was unusually severe period pains, but the pain only got worse despite painkillers. It got so bad that couldn’t even stand up...
How should we measure our impact?
The Foundation to Prevent Antibiotic Resistance has joined the Swedish impact measurement network Effektfullt, a partner network of Social Value International. We will work together with other change-making organizations to develop effective ways to measure our impact.
New report: Knowledge gaps in prevention of antibiotic resistance
A new study in Global Health Action, commissioned by the Foundation to Prevent Antibiotic resistance, concludes that research on preventive strategies is an under-researched field. Among the 430 000 research papers on antibiotic resistance that the study identified in an 18-year period, only 0.25% focus on preventive strategies. More cross-disciplinary research and evidence-based interventions are needed for the prevention of antibiotic resistance.
Antibiotic resistance and Sustainable Development Goals
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) guide investment in sustainable development, and the lack of inclusion of antibiotic resistance has therefore been problematic. The recent review has added one indicator of resistant infections, but most of the links between resistance and the SDG’s are still implicit. Even so, rising awareness of the importance and fragility of global health can hopefully pave way for a greater recognition of the intimate connections between antibiotic resistance and sustainable development.
Pneumonia, access and excess
In low-income countries, the issue of antibiotic overuse is complicated by that many patients lack access to antibiotics even when they really need them. Nathalie Arnqvist studies Global Health at Uppsala University and is writing her master thesis in collaboration with the Foundation to Prevent Antibiotic Resistance, and her topic is pneumonia among children in Kenya.
Does antibiotic resistance matter in a viral pandemic?
At first sight, a viral disease such as covid-19 has little to do with antibiotic resistance. Those who remember their biology classes will know that antibiotics work only to treat bacterial infections. However, there can be a connection between the occurrence of resistant bacteria and how bad a viral pandemic becomes.