Global Antimicrobial Resistance Innovation Fund (GAMRIF) - Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance in Colombia via diagnostic uptake in pig farming

ICARS (International Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance Solutions) is an international organisation created by the Danish government to tackle the barriers to successfully addressing AMR. The multi-funder arrangement offers risk-sharing as well as allowing DHSC to leverage co-funding. This partnership will allow DHSC to benefit from the existing relationships between ICARS and stakeholders in Colombia, and perhaps wider Latin America (a region where GAMRIF-supported innovation may have significant benefit if successful). DHSC and ICARS (International Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance Solutions) are undertaking a pilot partnership which will identify challenges and successes in the uptake of a novel, subsidised diagnostic platform model available to the pig farming industry in Colombia. This will support increased diagnosis, and therefore reduce inappropriate antimicrobial use. This project is managed on behalf of GAMRIF by the International Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance Solutions (ICARS) via Porkcolombia with support from the Colombian Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, who ICARS already hold an existing relationship with. Projects funded through the Global AMR Innovation Fund (GAMRIF) will primarily benefit people in LMICs, where the burden of drug-resistant infection is greater.