Monrovia, Liberia – Consummate Health and Sanitation (CHS), with the theme “The Role of Technology in Mitigating AMR in Liberia,” has brought together stakeholders from all across the nation for its 2nd Annual Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Conference with a renewed sense of urgency and determination.
The event represents a major advancement in the country’s fight to antimicrobial resistance (AMR), a public health emergency that is threatening to undo decades of advancements in medicine. In order to use innovation and technology to fight drug resistance, it also attracted specialists from the government, academia, civic society, and international organizations.
The notion that someone else would preserve the earth is the biggest concern, according to CHS Team Lead Martin Forkpah, who spoke on Sunday, May 25, 2025.
From spearheading community-based health education initiatives to encouraging water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) practices in schools and rural communities, he stated that Consummate Health and Sanitation has significantly improved Liberia’s health landscape since its founding. He also claims that CHS has been a grassroots advocate for preventative health.
He said that the group actively supports the One Health concept, incorporates environmental, animal, and human health into its initiatives, and has been instrumental in raising awareness of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR).
As a guest speaker, Africa CDC’s Senior Country Representative Bakary Sonko commended Liberia’s growing AMR leadership and outlined insights from other countries on the continent, such as Ghana’s digital surveillance tools, Kenya’s integrated DHIS2 AMR modules, and South Africa’s real-time lab data systems.
These instances demonstrate how digital surveillance may change national responses to AMR when it is locally controlled and politically supported, according to Sonko.
“The Annual AMR Conference should be formally endorsed by the Ministry of Health, the National Public Health Institute of Liberia, the One Health Platform, WHO, and Africa CDC as a permanent, multisectoral coordination and innovation platform,” he continued, adding that CHS used the occasion to make a daring national appeal.
Reported by: Prince Saah
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