For many years now, Erick Venant has been dedicated to raising awareness about the growing threat of superbugs. As a young pharmacist in Tanzania, he founded the Roll Back Antimicrobial Resistance Initiative (RBA-Initiative), whose AMR School Clubs have been championed by Stop Superbugs as a brilliant example of a community project that’s helping to make […]

Over the last few months, Stop Superbugs supporters have been busy raising money to provide our Tanzanian partner project, the RBA-Initiative, with six ‘schools-in-a-box’ – six sets of educational equipment, which will help the project to grow and teach more children about how they can keep themselves safe from superbugs. The response from both induvial […]

We’re delighted to announce our new partner project: Superheroes against Superbugs (SaS), an inspirational scheme run by a volunteer team of scientists and healthcare professionals in Hyderabad, India. Superbugs are a big problem in India, with drug-resistant infections killing more people there than anywhere else in the world. Among the most vulnerable are infants, with […]

This April, the team from The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC) are taking up the baton to raise funds for a school-in-a-box for our partner project in Tanzania. The campaign aims to provide our partner project, the Roll Back Antimicrobial Resistance Initiative, with the equipment they need to open more of their hugely successful […]

The Roll Back Antimicrobial Resistance (RBA) Initiative runs ‘AMR School Clubs’, offering free lessons to children, teaching them about superbugs, and the responsible use of medicine, so they can keep themselves safe and, crucially, bring the message back to their families and community. Superbugs are a huge problem in Tanzania. Antibiotics can be purchased widely […]

A healthcare communications agency who specialise in infection, Page Medical, are the latest company to rise to the challenge and attempt to raise £1k to fund a school-in-a-box for our partner project in Tanzania. Over ten days in April, the Page Medical team will be undertaking 18 unique challenges (representing the 18 identified superbugs) in […]

Superbugs are a huge problem in Tanzania. Antibiotics can be purchased widely without prescription, and there’s low awareness of the issue among the public. To tackle this, the Roll Back Antimicrobial Resistance (RBA) Initiative runs ‘AMR School Clubs’, offering fun, free, creative lessons to children, teaching them about superbugs, and the responsible use of medicine. […]

Una Health, UK specialist in in-vitro diagnostics, have taken up the challenge to raise £1k to fund a school-in-a-box for our partner project in Tanzania. The campaign aims to provide the Roll Back Antimicrobial Resistance Initiative with the equipment they need to open more of their hugely successful ‘AMR clubs’ in schools across the Dodoma Region […]