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1. Antibiotic misuse in Cyprus fuels deadly resistance surge

Cyprus ranks among European Union countries with the highest antibiotic consumption and microbial resistance rates, Health Minister Michalis Damianou said Friday at a news conference kicking off a campaign on antibiotic stewardship and antimicrobial resistance. ...

2. Stella Kyriakides: A lifetime of fighting for better health

Stella Kyriakides, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, is currently in New York attending the 79th United Nations General Assembly,...

3. Cyprus faces growing threat from drug-resistant bugs: Is there hope?

In a bid to tackle a global health challenge, Cyprus is ramping up efforts to reduce the use of antibiotics in its livestock sector. This initiative comes as antimicrobial resistance poses a serious threat worldwide, leading to millions of deaths annually....

4. Cyprus to launch e-platform to monitor hospital infections

In a bid to enhance hospital infection monitoring, Cyprus plans to launch a specialized electronic platform by the end of 2025, according to Elizabeth Constantinou, Director of Medical Services at the Ministry of Health. ...

5. Climate crisis, a health emergency

On December 1, 2019, Ms. Kyriakides assumed the role of European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety....

6. Cyprus battles antibiotic overuse

In a recent press conference, The Pathological Society of Cyprus highlighted the alarming statistic that 1 in 2 citizens annually take antibiotics, leading to Cyprus outpacing other European countries in antibiotic consumption....

7. Cabinet greenlights WHO local office

The Cabinet has greenlit the establishment of a World Health Organization (WHO) Country Office in Cyprus, as confirmed in a statement released by Health Minister Popi Kanari....

8. Cyprus calls for medicine market reform

Health Minister for Health Popi Kanari said that Cyprus is in favor of the creation of a single market for medicines, and highlighted the problems that Cyprus faces regarding medicine access as a small member state, during the second day of the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council (EPSCO) of the EU, which was held on Tuesday in Luxembourg in its Health Ministers configuration....

9. Kyriakides: 'Our goal now, medicines for all'

"I have always envisioned a European Health Union, where the European Union would be intimately connected to every citizen regarding health matters....

10. Kyriakides and Becerra: EU and US establish joint health task force

11. Cyprus tackles alarming rates of antibiotic consumption

Cyprus is facing a serious problem with the consumption of antibiotic drugs and is now implementing a surveillance program on antibiotic prescriptions in outpatient health care in collaboration with the Health Insurance Organization....

12. EC proposes major reforms to create single market for medicines

The European Commission has proposed a new single market for medicines in the European Union (EU) to create an attractive and innovation-friendly environment for the research, development, and production of medicines....

13. Cyprus and Greece have the highest antibiotic consumption rates in the EU

According to recent data from the European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Cyprus and Greece have the highest ranking in the union for antibiotic consumption and are among the European Union countries with the highest rates of antimicrobial resistance and burden...

14. Kyriakides: 'The next health crisis will be caused by antibiotic overuse'

Antimicrobial resistance is “often seen as the next big health crisis”, Commissioner for Health Stella Kyriakides said in a statement ahead of November 18th, European Antibiotics Awareness Day, commenting on a pan-European survey on antimicrobial resistance which has shown that half of Europeans still incorrectly believe that antibiotics kill viruses....

15. The humble potato may hold key to defeating both hospital superbugs and crop diseases

The humble potato, which contains a natural antibiotic that destroys harmful bacteria, could hold the key to beating hospital superbugs in the future, according to research from a multinational team of researchers in Europe....

16. A silent pandemic requiring global action now

If policymakers fail to address the challenge of antimicrobial resistance they risk seeing the rise of a silent pandemic, write Stella Kyriakides and Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus...

17. Stella Kyriakides at Digital Agenda Cyprus Summit 2020

On 1 December 2019, Ms. Kyriakides became the European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety. ...