Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is now recognized as an extremely serious
global public health problem. The U.S. Agency for International Development–supported Rational Pharmaceutical
Management Plus Program (RPM Plus) of Management Sciences for Health is
currently supporting various activities to help contain this problem, including
an activity aimed at assisting in-country stakeholders to mount a country level AMR advocacy and containment program. At the request of the Drug Administration
and Control Authority of Ethiopia, RPM Plus sent a team of Maria Miralles and
Mohan Joshi to Addis Ababa in February–March 2006 to assist the local partners
in initiating such a country-level AMR program. This report describes the
activities accomplished during the trip, including the First AMR Stakeholders’
Meeting that was held on March 2, 2006, in Addis Ababa.