ISAC Webinar | Antimicrobial stewardship in critical care units

Join ISAC President Prof. Souha Kanj and three renowned international experts on 3 April 2025 as they explore cutting-edge strategies to optimise antimicrobial use in ICUs in this webinar hosted by ISAC and the Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics (APUA).
Gain insights on balancing effective treatment with resistance prevention in high-risk settings. A must-attend for infectious disease specialists, intensivists and pharmacists.
Join this session to enhance your stewardship practices and improve patient outcomes.

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On demand | Emerging and re-emerging infections among migrants 

This ISAC webinar focused on respiratory infectious diseases in refugees, providing insight into the epidemiology, prevention, and management of important pathogens. Dr Androulla Efstratiou, Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Diphtheria & Streptococcal Infections, UK Health Security Agency, presented on diphtheria and other vaccine preventable diseases, while Dr Aula Abbara, a consultant in Infectious Diseases and General Internal Medicine at Imperial College NHS Healthcare Trust, London, who has worked in many humanitarian and refugee settings in the Middle East, reviewed drug resistant tuberculosis among refugees and migrants.

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Survey on Candida Auris

As you all know, Candida auris is a global threat, posing a challenge to our patients, but also to our diagnostic and infection control capabilities. We kindly ask you to participate in a survey on this pathogen on behalf of the Infection Prevention & Control and Fungal Infections Working Groups by 3 April 2025.

PURPOSE

• Get an overview of current practices;
• Determine the need for (more) guidelines.
• Results will be used for publication. By filling in this survey, you agree that results will be used for this. Results will be presented anonymously.

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Other important activities

WHO World Hand Hygiene Day webinar - 8 April

“It might be gloves, it’s always hand hygiene
Warming up for World Hand Hygiene Day (5 May 2025)”

Sharing as a member of the WHO Global IPC Network.

Regardless of whether gloves are worn or not, hand hygiene at the right times and in the right way - is still one of the most important measures to protect those receiving care.

BuIt it’s more complex than that and working together can help find novel solutions to engage today’s health & care workers at all levels.

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The Trinity Challenge

The Trinity Challenge on Community Access to Effective antibiotics is OPEN with a prize fund of up to £1 million.

Share your ideas on stock control and substandard and falsified oral antibiotics by 24 April 2025.

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Future ISAC webinars - save the dates

Artificial Intelligence in Anti-infectives
23 May 2025
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Bacteriophage therapy: Where are we now?
13 June 2025
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