Project Overview

The Fleming Fund is a U.K. Department of Health and Social Care programme to help low- and middle-income countries fight antimicrobial resistance (AMR). DAI’s Fleming Fund programme in Nigeria is a collaboration with the Nigerian government to strengthen systems for AMR and Antimicrobial Use (AMR/AMU) using a “One Health” approach—a multisectoral approach to complex health problems that reaches across human health, animal health, and environment sectors. As global leaders in One Health, the DAI team helped to incorporate One Health across programme interventions. DAI worked with the Nigerian government to become a leader in combating antimicrobial resistance. Enhancement of Reference and Surveillance laboratories (Ladoke Akintola Teaching Hospital,Osogbo, Osun) which can include equipment, consumables and reagents, as well as infrastructure (e.g. refurbishment, renovation of existing building structures and installation of backup power supply).