News and Events

Antibiotic Awareness Week

The Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) joins the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) year around education effort to improve antibiotic prescribing and use and combat antimicrobial resistance. Visit Be Antibiotics Aware: Smart Use, Best Care for more information.

World AMR Awareness Week is a global campaign to raise awareness and understanding of AMR and promote best practices among One Health stakeholders to reduce the emergence and spread of drug-resistant infections. WAAW is celebrated from 18-24 November every year.

Nearly 3 million people are infected with an antimicrobial-resistant infection each year, resulting in over 35,000 deaths. Antibiotic resistance is caused by the overuse and misuse of antibiotics in general and the overuse of selected agents in particular. Appropriate use of antibiotics in people and animals is a key solution to addressing the threat of antibiotic resistance. Education about appropriate antibiotic use and changed attitudes and practices of healthcare professionals, veterinarians, and the general public alike will contribute to appropriate antibiotic prescribing and use.

Newsletters

• National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Newsletters

Alabama's HAI Annual Report 

• 2016 Alabama HAI Annual Report

2012 Multi-State Fungal Outbreak

• ADPH releases list of facilities that received NECC products
• Alabama residents received contaminated NECC products
• Ongoing investigation of products from New England Compounding Center continues
• Alabama not currently identified in multi-state meningitis outbreak
• CDC Multistate Meningitis Outbreak Investigation
• FDA Statement on Fungal Meningitis Outbreak