Maarten van der Heijden
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Maarten van der Heijden
@mrvanderheijden.bsky.social
Contains multitudes. Global health lawyer. Anthropologist in training. PhD candidate at LSHTM researching future-making in access to medicines. 🌍💊 Consultant at WHO + FAO, ex-MSF
(3/3) For English/German there's this nice list from the Wellcome Trust's Reframing Resistance study with the terms used in news outlets.
November 11, 2024 at 3:46 PM
Old definitions of 'drugs'/'medicines' form a problem for controlling antimicrobial use. Two main Qs are:

(1) Does this definition include medicated feed for animals? (Probably)
(2) Does this definition use the use of mediciens as growth promotors? (Probably not)

Out of scope = uncontrolled use
November 11, 2024 at 9:16 AM
Pictures of a stroll along Lumley Beach in Freetown after giving a workshop on reforming the governance of veterinary medicines for One Health Day last week.
November 11, 2024 at 9:05 AM