This event highlighted the importance of Vietnam’s National Action Plan on AMR in Agriculture and One Health approach, which aims to reduce the misuse of antimicrobials in livestock and promote responsible practices across the agricultural sector.

The UK and Vietnam commit to taking action against drug resistance through a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).

As part of the World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2020, a group of 11 Vietnamese students from secondary, high school and university levels worked with the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit (OUCRU) to develop creative comic messages in a communications campaign to promote appropriate antibiotic usage and tackle the issue of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Vietnam.