Makerere University AMR Club

We’re so proud of our Primary Category winners for their incredible spoken poetry on AMR! 🎤🌟 Their words really hit home about the need to fight AMR together through good WASH practices. More amazing submissions to on our website soon! @Makerere @TrinityChall @south_centre

🔥 Join the Weekly Makerere University AMR Club Awareness Series – Ignite the Fight Against Superbugs! 🔥 📸 Snap a BOLD photo, unleash your POWERFUL AMR message, and let’s flood the world with awareness TOGETHER! 💥 Be HEARD. Be the CHANGE. Your voice could save lives.

🚀 ARE YOU READY, CHAMPS? 🚀 The epic Bike Competition is HERE AGAIN! 🔥and BIGGER than EVER💯 👟 Lace up, gear up, and REV your engines for this heart-pounding adventure! 🏍️💥 Get set to RACE AGAINST AMR like never before—pedal fierce, conquer resistance, and OWN the track.

🚀 OUR MARCH WEBINAR ALERT🚀 💙Join us THIS SATURDAY, March 28th at 7 PM EAT / 5 PM WAT for an electrifying webinar: 💙Empowering Young Leaders to Build a Lasting Future FREE from Superbugs!💯 ⚫️Let’s spark innovation, crush antimicrobial resistance.

Thrilled to represent Wave Youth Against AMR at the AI & AMR Symposium Presented our innovative My AMR Alert app – an AI-powered mobile tool 💻✨💫combating the AMR crisis with daily reminders, AI drug photo ID, quizzes, expert chat, & USSD access.💯💥🌏

I am presenting our WASH Champions project at the 14th International Conference on Typhoid & other Invasive Salmonelloses in Cambodia.🤗 We share how school campaigns can strengthen AMR & typhoid prevention in low resource areas. Thanks to @sabinvaccine for the travel support.

@nabi_vivi @sabinvaccine @Makerere_Medics @PreventTyphoid Well done👏😇🥳

🤩We received exciting feedback on scaling the app bigger, forging partnerships with bioinformaticians, and collaborating with ACE to enhance it as a top AMR tool💥 Key takeaway from the symposium; let’s explore the potential of AI in health care delivery for AMR prevention 🧬💪

Our very own @AkelloCatheri11 represented @waveagainstamr at the Symposium hosted by @AceUganda where she presented our innovative My AMR Alert app ;an AI-powered mobile tool combatting the AMR crisis with daily reminders, AI drug photo ID, quizzes, expert chat, & USSD access.🥳

🚀 Wondering how AI is revolutionizing AMR? 🤩⚡️✨ Wave 🥳participated in the FIRST-EVER AMR & AI Symposium 🇺🇬💯; linking Uganda, South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, TZ, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, & Mozambique.🌏💥 Discussing and diving into AI modalities crushing AMR🌟📝

The #AIinAMRUG2026 Symposium kicked off today at the @MakSPH auditorium at @Makerere University. What a great stage for landmark discussions on #AI and its application in #AMR! It is organised by @AceUganda at @IDIMakerere with support from @GoogleDeepMind. #AIinAMRUG2026

🔥 Join the Weekly Makerere University AMR Club Awareness Series – Ignite the Fight Against Superbugs! 📸 Snap a BOLD photo, unleash your POWERFUL AMR message, and let’s flood the world with awareness TOGETHER! 💥 Be HEARD. Be the CHANGE. Your voice could save lives! Who’s in?🥳

🚀 ARE YOU READY, CHAMPS? The epic Bike Competition is HERE AGAIN! 🔥and BIGGER than EVER💯👟 Lace up, gear up, and REV your engines for this heart-pounding adventure! 🏍️💥 Get set to RACE AGAINST AMR like never before—pedal fierce, conquer resistance, and OWN the track! 🥇⚡

Episode 11 🌸; One Health is an interdisciplinary systems approach that brings together the human, animal, and environmental health sectors to help us understand and solve AMR as a whole not just as a linear problem because factors driving AMR are interconnected 🤩✨🥳

Did you know that there’s emerging evidence of resistance to malaria first line drugs? This could be detrimental to years of research and efforts made towards eliminating malaria Let’s work hard 💪🏾 to protect the medicines 💊 that protect our health 🫶🏾✨.

The 🦟 malaria parasite is evolving, and it’s a race against time. ⏱️ In Uganda and Rwanda, evidence of resistance to our frontline ACTs is growing. If we lose these medicines, we lose our best shield. 🛡️ How to fight back: 1. Test before you treat 🩸 2. Complete your full dose 💊 3. Never self-medicate 🚫 Let's protect the medicines that protect us. 🫶🏾✨ #AWaReWednesdays #EndMalaria #AntimicrobialResistance #UgandaHealth #DontJustBeAwareBeAWaRe

🔥 Join the Weekly Makerere University AMR Club Awareness Series – Ignite the Fight Against Superbugs! 🔥 📸 Snap a BOLD photo, unleash your POWERFUL AMR message, and let’s flood the world with awareness TOGETHER! 💥 Be HEARD. Be the CHANGE. Your voice could save lives! Who’s in?

Episode 9 of the AWaRe Wednesday series❤️ 🎥✨ We talk a lot about global statistics 🌍📊 but what about our very own country, Uganda???🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬How are we doing when it comes to AMR surveillance 🧪🔬? What has been done so far? Lessons learned? Challenges ⚠️? Find out more.🤭

The AWaRe Classification of antibiotics, developed by the World Health Organization (WHO), is a simple and practical tool that helps clinicians choose the right antibiotic By guiding better antibiotic selection, it promotes responsible and optimal use ✅ and helps curb (AMR) 🦠🚫

Happy Wednesday to you! 🥳🥰🎉 We are backkkkkkkkkkk! 🔥🙌🏽 Hope you missed us because we missed you 😊❤️ Let’s dive right back in to understanding how AMR interacts with different sectors 🌍🏥🌱💊 and how we can leverage our knowledge to tackle this challenge 🦠. Stay tuned ✨✨

🔥 Ready to feast your eyes on jaw-dropping artwork from our TOP participants?! 😍✨