Annual Report 2025 | International centre for antimicrobial resistance solutions
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Annual Report 2025

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In 2025, ICARS continued to advance implementation of its 2022–2026 Strategy and further consolidated its role as a trusted platform for delivering context-specific, country-owned solutions to antimicrobial resistance. Overall performance across strategic pillars was strong, with several indicators exceeding targets. Notably, the expansion of the project portfolio, demonstrated country uptake of tested solutions, strong scientific output, and continued resource mobilisation reflect both growing demand for ICARS’ model and increasing recognition of its technical credibility and delivery capacity.

Table of contents:

  • Independent auditors report
  • Message from the Executive Directors
  • Statement by the management
  • Achievements in 2025
  • ICARS-supported project map for 2025
  • About ICARS
  • Financial results

Our projects

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Multi-sector
Multi-country

One Health Drive AMS-IPC Africa (Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention in One Health in Africa)
Environment
Zimbabwe

Strengthening wastewater management to reduce environmental pollution by antibiotic resistant microbes (ARMs), antibiotic resistant genes (ARGs) and antibiotic residues in wastewater from poultry abattoirs in Zimbabwe
Human Health
Botswana

Implementation of Infection Prevention and Control bundles using a comprehensive unit-based safety programme across multiple hospitals in Botswana
Animal Health
Bangladesh

Contract Poultry Farming, Antimicrobial Use and Policy Oversight: A Scoping Study for Targeted Interventions to Limit Antimicrobial Use in Bangladesh
Human Health
Ghana

​​Enhancing infection prevention and rational antibiotic use for neonatal infection in four health facilities the Volta Region, Ghana​
Multi-sector

Building Economic Assessment Capacity for One Health AMR Interventions in Africa (BEACOI-Africa)
Human Health
Rwanda

​​Implementing an antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) programme for surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis (SAP) in selected public hospitals in Rwanda​
Human Health
Uganda

Infection Prevention and Control and Surgical Antibiotic Prophylaxis Stewardship to Reduce Surgical Site Infections and Optimise Antibiotic Use During Surgeries in Regional Referral Hospitals in Uganda
Animal Health
Argentina

Impact of the colistin ban on animal production in Argentina: challenges and opportunities
Human Health
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

St. Vincent and the Grenadines baseline study
Animal Health
Dominica

Prevalence of AMR at the Dominica-China friendship hospital: A Dominica national laboratory retrospective study
Human Health
Guyana

Assessment of knowledge, attitudes and practices of clinicians in Guyana on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and antibiotic use (AMU) in outpatient and inpatient settings
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Related resources

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Human Health

Community engagement and antimicrobial stewardship in Kosovo
Multi-sector

Strengthening AST capacity in LMICs: lessons from an ILRI-EUCAST-ICARS regional laboratory capacity-building initiative
Human Health

The non-linear nature of infection prevention and control (IPC) implementation: social and structural dynamics in Colombian public ICUs
Multi-sector

Prevalence of E. coli and Salmonella in Colombian Pig Production: A One Health Study
Multi-sector

Vaccines for antimicrobial resistance prevention: commentary on bridging the gap between immunisation and AMR strategies
Human Health

Combining CRP testing and patient information leaflets to safely reduce antibiotic use for acute respiratory tract infections in adults: Protocol for the 2CARE randomised controlled trial in Kyrgyz primary care
Human Health

Applying a gender and equity matrix for a contextualized antimicrobial stewardship intervention in Pakistan
Multi-sector

Gender and equity in antimicrobial resistance policy: new FAO & ICARS report
Human Health

Contextual analysis of antibiotic prescribing practices for upper respiratory infections and diarrhoea in rural Punjab, Pakistan
Multi-sector

Vaccines and antimicrobial resistance: from science to policy—summary and outcomes
Human Health

Antimicrobial stewardship efforts drive national AMR policy integration in Georgia
Environment

Antimicrobial Use and Manure Management Practices Among Commercial Chicken Farmers in Selected Regions of Tanzania: Gaps and Strategies for Mitigating Antimicrobial Resistance
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27. May 2026

ICARS participates in the 1st Americas Regional Meeting on AMR in Brazil
26. May 2026

ICARS attends official launch of the neonatal AMR project in Ghana
11. May 2026

ICARS at the One Health Summit 2026
1. May 2026

ICARS at ESCMID Global 2026
30. April 2026

Reducing antimicrobial resistance in Colombia: ICARS highlights FARM-CARE project results and LIMCRE annual advisory board meeting
15. April 2026

ICARS appoints Helle Engslund Krarup as new Executive Director
9. April 2026

ICARS announces intervention implementation research study to strengthen infection prevention and antimicrobial stewardship during surgeries to reduce surgical site infections in Uganda
25. March 2026

ICARS attends the African Union Member States’ Inaugural Fungal Disease Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
26. February 2026

ICARS joins Team Europe Initiative to strengthen sustainable health security through One Health initiatives in Africa
12. February 2026

High-level delegation from Bangladesh visits ICARS headquarters
10. February 2026

Reflections from the ICARS-supported Antibiogo project as Médecins Sans Frontières scales up expansion of the app
3. February 2026

ICARS sign Memorandum of Understanding with the East, Central and Southern African Health Community
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