Last week, the African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM) attended the 4th Global High-Level Ministerial Conference on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in Saudi Arabia, where the Jeddah Commitments on AMR were adopted.
Ministerial delegates from 67 countries across sectors, including agriculture, food, environment, human, and animal health, participated. The Jeddah Commitments aim to advance actions from the 79th UN General Assembly (UNGA) High-Level Meeting’s political declaration on AMR. Key initiatives include establishing an independent evidence panel by 2025 and creating an AMR One Health Learning Hub and Regional AMR Access and Logistics Hub in Saudi Arabia.
The conference emphasized achieving AMR goals by 2030, with the next meeting scheduled for 2026 in Nigeria.
Following the conference, ASLM joined the Second AMR Stakeholder Partnership Platform Assembly, which focused on operationalizing One Health solutions to address the outcomes of the UNGA meeting and the 4th Ministerial Conference on AMR.
This gathering underscored the importance of collaboration and multi-stakeholder approaches in combating AMR globally.