15/11/24 (Agence Europe) – Ahead of European Antibiotic Awareness Day on Monday 18 November, Stella Kyriakides, European Commissioner for Health, issued a statement stressing the need to “continue to draw attention to the urgent threat posed by antimicrobial resistance” (AMR). This year’s theme (‘Antimicrobial resistance is invisible; I am not’) underlines the “urgent need to step up our actions to address the profound human cost of AMR for patients, families and healthcare systems across Europe”, confirms the Commissioner. Last year, the EU set clear targets to help Member States reduce AMR by 2030, and the EU4Health programme provides financial support to help them implement key policies to combat this threat. Link to the declaration: https://aeur.eu/f/ebn (LC)