Description:
The Ministry of Health, Ghana Health Services, University of Ghana Medical School, and the Antibiotic Drug Use Monitoring and Evaluation of Resistance (ADMER) Project are excited to host the African Conference on Antibiotic use and Resistance (AFCAR) in Accra Ghana, from March 18th - 20th, 2015. The conference is held both as a final scientific event for the results of the ADMER-project and as an attempt to draw the attention to the serious problems with antibiotic resistance and its relationship of antibiotic use in Ghana and the rest of West Africa and Africa.

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Attendance Grants:
ESCMID provides a number of attendance grants for ESCMID “young scientist
members”. The grant covers the registration fee, but not travel or accommodation costs. Please apply here before 27 February 2015. Applicants will be informed about their acceptance by 6 March 2015.

Organiser:
Department of Clinical Microbiology, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Statens Serum Institut

Event Secretariat:
Dr. Japheth A. Opintan, Coordinator ADMER and Conference
Microbiology Department, University of Ghana Medical School Korle-Bu
None, None Accra
Ghana

Phone +233 244789209
japh_opintan[at]yahoo.com