The GBADs AMR team conducted their second country case study this week in Ethiopia. The meeting, located at the ILRI Campus in Addis Ababa, allowed local participants to attend and engage with the GBADs team and their current work in AMR/AMU burden in livestock. The Workshop followed on from the initial AMR Workshop in Copenhagen in December. You can find this on our website here. This work is supported by the Fleming Fund.

Many gaps remain in our understanding of AMR burden in livestock, including how AMR leads to losses at farm level, and beyond through externalities in public health and the environment. The GBADs’ work on AMU and AMR aims to address some of these gaps by providing a methodology nested within the programme’s analytical framework., identifying data requirements, and generating burden estimates in selected case studies.  The Ethiopian case study aims to establish these estimates for the cattle sector.

Participants praised the outcome of the work conducted and suggested that it would be interesting to expand the scope of the work to include other health issues and use the information to look at interventions. Improving the estimates through better data was also a topic of discussion and future collaborations and synergies to address data limitations were identified.

The Fleming Fund project continues to convey the importance and need for AMR/AMU burden research. If you would like to find out more about this project, click here or contact us!