ACTIVATION KITS

Patients & Patient Advocacy Groups

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As a patient or patient advocacy group using this activation kit, you can:

Insist on proactive measures to reduce drug-resistant infections because, like COVID-19, AMR is a real and present threat to public health.

Make and discuss their plans for using antibiotics appropriately to reduce misuse and encourage others to observe prevention strategies.

Mobilize to develop recommendations, diagnostics, and therapeutics to combat AMR right now.

Help limit the effects of AMR by creating a personal action plan for you and your family.

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LEARN MORE about how to demand action by joining the rapidly growing Antimicrobial Resistance Fighter Coalition

Patient Advocacy Kit Overview

Patients and patient advocacy groups are encouraged to use this kit to take action and raise awareness of the AMR threat. Global behavior change starts with developing an action plan and facilitating its implementation.

What’s included

Together we can use these tools to build a movement combatting the threat of antimicrobial resistance. Take a look.

Conversation Guides

You can draw from the messages and talking points in your communications.

Become an AMR awareness builder, share these messages so others can protect our antibiotics. See the kit for even more:

Rising drug resistant infections put us at risk by reducing access to routine healthcare like dentistry, surgery, and maternity care.

As patients, family members, and caregivers, we need to insist on proactive measures to reduce drug-resistant infections.

Families should make and discuss their plans for using antibiotics appropriately to reduce misuse and encourage others to observe prevention strategies.

Campaign Materials

Use these tools to engage the media. With the sample media letter, you can share information and data to garner media engagement on the topic of drug resistant infections.

Digital Guides

Social Media Messages & Graphics

Media Outreach & Engaging the Media in Your AMR Efforts

Make your voice heard

It’s crucial that we highlight the stories of patients with firsthand experience battling AMR to illustrate the gravity of antimicrobial resistance. Raising awareness of the dangers of misusing antibiotics, as well as adopting individual prevention behaviors like handwashing, can go a long way in keeping families and communities healthy.

Tell Your Story

Join the Movement

Engage Your Community

Download the Activation Kit

Access the full activation kit to learn how you and your family can develop an action plan, get involved, and become antibiotic resistance fighters.