A New Student Competition: World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2020
This year, due to the pandemic, we couldn’t host our annual DRASA’s Got Talent Youth Competition in celebration of World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW) which held from 18 – 24 November 2020. But we still wanted to do something to engage students. So we partnered with World Health Organization (WHO) Nigeria and Ducit Blue Foundation […]
A Spelling Bee Competition to Spread Awareness, Stop the Resistance: Antimicrobial Awareness Week
World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW) is an annual event that takes place globally from the 18th – 24th of November to increase awareness of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) which is considered the “silent pandemic” spreading rapidly around the world. The goal of WAAW is to educate and encourage best practices among the general public, health workers, […]
900 Students, 30 Schools, 15 New Youth Trainers: Scaling our School Health and Hygiene Program
“As you start to walk on the way, the way appears” –Rumi For us at DRASA, we believe that solving the challenge of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) involves engaging a core part of Nigeria’s population: our young people. Their role in actualizing improvements in public health is proven if we want to successfully curb the increasing […]