The proposed plans are to perform interventions such as awareness-raising campaigns, develop and distribute training materials as well as perform surveillance activities in particular focusing on specific critical resistances in some gram-negative bacteria across the poultry food chain, the environment, and humans. The surveillance activities will include the estimation of antimicrobial usage, the occurrence of resistance, resistance genes, and drug residues.
Interviews and questionnaires will be performed to envisage how it might be possible to improve the way antibiotics are used.
The research will be performed in an urban and a rural region of Tanzania.
The primary aim of INIKA_OH_TZ is to reduce further development of AMR in Tanzania and improve the health of humans, animals and the environment. The secondary aims are to:
- Build capacities for AMR surveillance in Tanzania, in humans, animals and environment using a One Health approach (WP1, WP3, WP4).
- Examine the knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviour relevant to AMR and AMU among poultry farmers and other target groups and design interventions for sustainable change (WP2).
- Improve knowledge about selected pathogens and their AMR profiles in Tanzania (WP3).
- Identify AMR hotspots, gene transfer and drivers for the development of AMR within the targeted regions (WP4).
- Increase the knowledge of AMR and prudent AMU among all stakeholders (WP5).
Partners
The consortium constitutes of partners from the Sokoine University of Agriculture, the Tanzanian Veterinary Laboratory Agency, the Sankt Francis University of Health and Allied Sciences, the Livestock Training Agency, the Tanzanian Farmer Association from Tanzania, the Roskilde university from Denmark and is led by the Norwegian Veterinary Institute, Norway.
