To celebrate our 50th anniversary, we’re inviting a select number of experts to share what they see as being the 21st-century solutions to one of the biggest and most complex challenges of our generation: antimicrobial resistance. In this post, Professor Sabiha Essack, explores the future of infection prevention and control...

The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC) welcomes the news that UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has joined more than 20 international leaders in calling for a settlement that will help the world prepare for future pandemics, and is keen to ensure that, as a ‘slow-motion catastrophe’, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is now made a top priority on the global health security agenda.

In some ways, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a lot like the problem of climate change. Both are complex existential threats that demand an equally complex response: new legislation, better market incentives, innovative new technologies, not to mention a sea-change in our relationship with animals, and towards consumption in general. They also require that people, at an individual level, to ‘do their bit’ and change their behaviours...

Helping healthcare facilities globally to measure and enhance IPC, data collection / usage and antimicrobial stewardship programmes. Reducing preventable deaths from infections through effective antimicrobial use

BSAC is seeking organisations interested in contributing funds to its grants programme.

We're excited to announce that the E-bug Educators Training course, developed by BSAC & Public Health England, is now available in Welsh. It is a free health education resource that provides fun and accessible learning for students in the classroom and/or at home, on the subject of reducing the spread of infections and antibiotic resistance in the UK.

The Bad Bugs Book Club was set up in 2009 as a place for members to read and then discuss novels in which infectious disease forms some part of the story. In this post, founder Professor Joanna Verran explains how the club aims to get people interested in science and literature, understand more about microbiology, and meet new people along the way...

On 23 March, BSAC’s former president, Professor Dilip Nathwani OBE, will give a lecture honouring Professor Jacques Acar's contribution to science and the fight against antimicrobial resistance.