On September 30, 2021, the Antimicrobial Resistance Containment Program, Communicable Disease Control (CDC), DGHS, with Fleming Fund Country Grant for Bangladesh (FFCGB), organized a meeting. Director of the RMCH, Brigadier General Md. Shameem Yazdany chaired the meeting, and Dr Aninda Rahman, DPM, CDC, DGHS, moderated the sessions. Participants included clinicians and faculty from all disciplines of the RMCH, colleagues from CDC, FFCGB, IEDCR, and icddr,b. A very lively discussion on AMR and data utilization took place in the meeting.
CAPTURA (Capturing Data on Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns and Trends in Use in Regions of Asia), a Fleming Fund Regional Grant, continues to support Bangladesh’s AMR containment efforts through collaboration with stakeholders including DGHS, DGDA, and the Fleming Fund Country Grant for Bangladesh.
With the support from the Fleming Fund Coun-try Grant to Bangladesh, the Department of Livestock Services (DLS), Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council (BARC) and Bangladesh Livestock Research Institute (BLRI) jointly organized a consultative workshop on AMR Data Management in Animal Health (AH) Sector on 3rd March 2021 in Dhaka. Representa- tives from different departments of Animal Health and fisheries sectors attended the workshop.
The Communicable Disease Control (CDC), Director-ate General of Health Services (DGHS) organized the Core Working Group (CWG) meeting of the Nation-al Technical Committee on Antimicrobial Containment Program on 16 March 2021. The meeting was presided over by Prof. Dr. Md. Nazmul Islam, Director, Disease Control and facilitated by Dr. Aninda Rahman, Deputy Program Manager, CDC.