GLOBAL ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE PARTNERSHIP NEPAL

Global Antibiotic Resistance Partnership Nepal (GARP Nepal) has been working in antibiotic use and resistance sector since 2013. The project is funded by the One Health Trust. The heart of GARP Nepal is a voluntary working group of local professionals representing a range of disciplines in human and animal health from academia, NGOs and the government. The main objective of the program is to generate country level evidence on impact of vaccine on antibiotic use and AMR containment and sensitize relevant stakeholders.

Project activities:

GARP’s current focus is generating cross-disciplinary evidence describing the impact of vaccines on AMR in country-specific contexts.

• Initiate a conversation with experts in the AMR and Immunization fields to obtain national perspectives.
• Create a working group to facilitate activities related to this evidence-generating and policy engagement project.
• Generate country-level estimates on the impact of vaccines in reducing infectious disease burden and AMR.
• Develop national-level publications bringing forth evidence on the value of vaccines to mitigate AMR and the benefit of including its reduction of AMR burden when making the economic case for vaccine introduction.
• Convene experts and policymakers from the AMR and Immunization sector to present national-level evidence on the value of vaccines as a mitigation tool for AMR.