South American Infection Prevention and Control to Stop Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) and Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)

Project Objective

To support the training of FETP residents and graduates on outbreak investigations, analysis of healthcare-associated infections (HAI) and antimicrobial resistance (AMR), infection prevention and control (IPC) training, and IPC network evaluation. The project builds public health capacity in South America in components of IPC programs needed at the national and facility levels to effectively prevent HAI and AMR.