ASPIRE – Antimicrobial Stewardship, Prevention of Infection and Resistance in Africa

Fighting drug-resistant infections in African hospitals

Across the African continent, hospitals are dealing with the challenge of multidrug-resistant bacterial infections, while infection control and antimicrobial stewardship remain uncoordinated. With this in mind, the EU-funded ASPIRE project aims to improve cleanliness in four hospitals in Ethiopia and Ghana with special emphasis on handwashing, visitor hand hygiene, and cleaning of surfaces. ASPIRE seeks to reduce healthcare-associated infections by 15 %, as well as enhance treatment outcomes by implementing personalised antibiotic therapy using therapeutic drug monitoring and pharmacodynamic modelling. By integrating these approaches into an eHealth system, ASPIRE fosters a sustainable and cost-efficient strategy to effectively counter antibiotic resistance.

Details

Status:

  • active

Research Focus:

  • Medicine and Health

Project Coordination:

Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
(LMU)

Partners:

Saint Paul Millennium Medical College (Ethiopia)

Jimma University (Ethiopia)

Arsi University (Ethiopia)

Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Düsseldorf (Germany)

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Kumasi (Ghana)

Universitetet I Oslo (Norway)

Countries:

Germany (Bavaria), Ethiopia, Ghana

Funding Agency:

European Union (EU)

Funding Type:

Horizon Europe (HEU)

Duration:

01/04/2025
– 31/03/2026

Budget:

€ 2 840 208,25 EUR

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