About ARC

The Antibiotic Resistance Coalition (ARC) consists of civil society organizations and stakeholders from six continents working in the health, agriculture, consumer and development sectors. Established in May 2014, the Coalition advocates for policy change and action to prevent the post-antibiotic era from becoming a bleak reality.

The Antibiotic Resistance Declaration

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In May 2014, the Antibiotic Resistance Coalition launched the “Declaration on Antibiotic Resistance” to advocate for policy change and action to prevent the post-antibiotic era from becoming a bleak reality. The Declaration calls for international leadership to take actions such as:

  • Prohibit the mis-promotion and advertising of antibiotics;

  • Promote new, needs-driven and open research and development models based on the principle of delinkage;

  • Phase out the use of antibiotics from routine disease prevention in livestock and end their use, altogether, for growth promotion;

  • Build robust systems, in all countries, to monitor and report antibiotic use and resistance trends in humans and animals; and

  • Improve public awareness to support an ecological understanding of the human-bacterial interaction and behavior change around antibiotic use.

Download the ARC Declaration on Antibiotic Resistance here.

 
 

Signatories of the Declaration on Antibiotic Resistance include:

  • Alliance to Save Our Antibiotics

  • American Medical Student Association

  • Center for Science and Environment

  • Center for Science in the Public Interest

  • Consumers’ Association of Penang

  • Consumers International

  • Ecumenical Pharmaceutical Network

  • European Public Health Alliance

  • Food Animal Concerns Trust

  • IFARMA Foundation

  • Initiative for Health & Equity in Society

  • Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

  • Instituto Brasileiro de Defesa do Consumidor (IDEC)

  • Health Action International

  • Health Care Without Harm

  • Keep Antibiotics Working

  • MedAct

  • Natural Resources Defense Council

  • Pan-African Treatment Access Movement

  • People’s Health Movement

  • Public Citizen

  • ReAct – Action on Antibiotic Resistance

  • Sahabat Alam Malaysia (Friends of the Earth Malaysia)

  • Society for International Development

  • South Centre

  • Sustainable Food Trust

  • Third World Network

  • Universities Allied for Essential Medicines

  • US Public Interest Research Group

  • What Next Forum

 

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