Over 200 people have signed this declaration and we hope you can also lend your voice to the declaration below by clicking on the link and adding your name and affiliation:
Montreal Declaration on Clinical Bacteriology Diagnostics for Antimicrobial Resistance
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdpJQkzY1YtrFjBlbLJN4taAfsgXrULVZYyNIuMCP_VOAda2w/viewform
The resulting call to action will be circulated widely to policy makers, with the aim promoting the scale-up bacteriology diagnostic services across sub-Saharan Africa.
Many thanks in advance for adding your voice to the important call, and for circulating among your colleagues.
Jan Jacobs (Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp)
Madhu Pai (McGill University)
Nitika Pant Pai (McGill University)
Trevor Peter (Clinton Health Access Initiative)
Makeda Semret (McGill University)
Erika Vlieghe (Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp)
Heiman Wertheim (Radboud University)
Cedric Yansouni (McGill University)
Formulated by members of the BACTI-LRS Working Group during the McGill Summer Institute in Infectious Diseases and Global Health:
2nd Antimicrobial Resistance Course
5th Global Health Diagnostics Course
Montreal, Canada, 10-14 June 2019