Chronology
A groundbreak 1928 discovery by Alexander Felming, this substance revolutinzed infection but now faced increases resistance?
What is penicillin?
This specialized committee in the United Nations helps people achieve the highest level of health by promoting physical, mental, and social well-being.
What is the World Health Organization (WHO)?
This major factor allows bacteria to evovle resistance quickly, due to random genetic changes during replication?
What are mutations?
This change is bacteria causes strains to become resistance to medicine, causing an international public health crisis.
What is antimicrobial resistance (AMR)?
This is the list that committee starts with and where majority of the debate will be.
What is speakers list?
This public health crisis has been declared a top three priority health threat by the WHO
What is antibiotic resistance (AMR)?
This important actor has a dual-interest in the topic, and has the ability to create strong antibiotics, do not have to implement antimicrobial stewardship, but benefit from this cause financially.
What are pharmaceutical companies?
This acronym defines how antibiotics and antimicrobials are consumed in a populaiton.
These two conflicting factors are the main dilemna behind combatting the AMR crisis.
How do creating stronger antibiotics, and creating less dependence affect AMR internationally?
Refer to these three yields after finishing speaking during speaker's list.
What is: I yield to the chair; to points; to another delegate?
This event in Germany caused Eastern European nations to switch government systems and cause a switch in healthcare systems.
What is the collapse of the Berlin Wall?
This public health agency in the EU protects 500 million people from infections diseases and uses experts to assess risks to Europe and provide guidance to help countries prevent and respond to outbreaks and public health threats.
What is the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)?
These three immunocomprimised populations are the key demographic to AMR susceptibility.
What are children, the elderly, and ill?
This possible cause is one of the main reasons why CEE nations are not able to properly fund advancing medicine.
What is the de-prioritization of healthcare expenditure in Eastern Europe?
You include these this when proposing a moderated caucus
What is: caucus duration, speaking time, and topic?
This framework put out by the WHO lays out foundational markers for how AMR can be combated and current limitations to emphasize 3 key points: whole societal engagement, prioritizing prevention, and granting equitable access to new antimicrobial medications
What is the WHO Global Strategy for Containment of AMR?
This organization was funded to track AMR in Europe to establish protocols and data collection measures
What is the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Network (EARS-Net)?
This can be said to be the official stance on how to combat AMR through preventative measures
How does Group of Seven (G7), the Transatlantic Taskforce on Antimicrobial Resistance (TATFAR) and the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA), help promote international partnership and implementation programs?
This important cultural factor may have a direct effect on how disease transmission occurs in households?
What is coresidence?
When submitting resolution papers, there are a set number of sponsoers and signatories needed to have a complete working paper.
What are 2 sponsors, and 25% of total committee signatories?
This surveillance system launched by the WHO aims to monitor and track AMR global AMR and AMC trends.
What is the WHO GLASS Report?
This European region is being disportionately affected by the AMR crisis due to socio political factors that directly affect the health of its citizens.
What are the Central Eastern European nations?
These two forms MRSA infections denote cases affecting healthy individuals in the community
What is CA-MRSA and HA-MRSA ?
(Community-associated MRSA infections and Hospital-associated MRSA infections)
These programs aimed to promote proper use of current antimicrobials, reduce resistance, and decrease infections
What is antimicrobial stewardship (AMS)?
These two amendments have different requirements for being passed.
How many sponsor signatures are on the working paper in friendly amendments, and how much is 20% of committee signatures for unfriendly amendments.