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We are pleased to bring you the latest newsletter from the International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (ISAC) and the Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics (APUA).

This issue contains four excellent feature articles on efforts to fight antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and improve antimicrobial stewardship (AMS):

• Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: an advocacy to intensify efforts for antimicrobial stewardship in low-and-middle income countries
Armel Poda, Jean-Baptiste Guiard-Schmid, Abdoul-Salam Ouédraogo and Pierre Tattevin

• Developing multi-disciplinary and context specific solutions to tackle antimicrobial resistance
Erica Westwood, Lisa Haagensen and Mirfin Mpundu

• The French interventional research plan developed to tackle antimicrobial resistance
Patricia Renesto, Erica Telford, Guia Carrara, Yazdan Yazdanpanah and Evelyne Jouvin-Marche

• BSAC and Pfizer collaboration to improve patient outcomes by addressing access disparities in antimicrobial stewardship
Jacqueline Sneddon and Andy Townsend

The newsletter also features a round-up of recent AMR / AMS news and all the latest news from ISAC including two new funding opportunities:

• ISAC Project Grants to support AMR / ID research in low resource settings.
• Young Investigator Travel Awards to attend the 32nd International Congress of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy in Perth, Australia.

Thank you to all contributors for their timely and interesting articles.

We welcome ideas for future content - please email your proposals to secretariat@ISAC.world.
Read / download the newsletter here