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WAAW 2026 theme: One Health, one action: Prevent AMR now

World AMR Awareness Week · 18 to 24 Nov 2026

Follow the guidance. Stop the resistance.

Seven questions. About two minutes. How sharp are your antimicrobial stewardship instincts?

Up to £55,000 to unlock

Every clinician who plays and joins the leaderboard helps unlock a free Eolas licence for a hospital in a country hit hard by AMR, so its prescribers have their antimicrobial guidance to hand.

Take the challenge

1 of 10 unlocked so far, help unlock the 2nd.

No sign-in to playOpen to all clinicians

Resistance is slowed one prescription at a time, and following local antimicrobial guidance is how.

Top teams

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Live standings. The board closes Tue 24 Nov, 23:59 UK time.

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The data

What clinicians looked up

We looked at a year of anonymised, aggregated search and usage data across Eolas.

2.5M

antimicrobial and infection searches in 12 months

6,800

searches a day, about one every 13 seconds

1 in 3

of all searches on Eolas are about antimicrobials or infection

7 in 10

clinicians who search Eolas looked up antimicrobial or infection guidance

The infections behind the searches

Searches by infection: Pneumonia (CAP, HAP, aspiration) 157,232; UTI and urosepsis 124,725; Cellulitis 73,616; Sepsis 65,037

Pneumonia and UTI lead, followed by cellulitis and sepsis.

20 out of 20

All 20 of the most opened files in Eolas are antimicrobial or infection guidelines.

  1. 1Cellulitis
  2. 2Aspiration pneumonia
  3. 3Adult: Gentamicin

Not a one off. A habit.

84% come back for another antimicrobial search within a month. Half are still searching 6 months later.

84%Month 151%Month 632%Month 12

Every one of these searches is a prescribing decision. When local guidance is one tap away, clinicians use it.

Take the antimicrobial stewardship challenge

Source: anonymised, aggregated Eolas usage data, 9 Oct 2025 to 8 Oct 2026.

Live webinar

One System, One Source: Closing the Stewardship Gap Between Primary and Secondary Care

Wednesday 25 November 2026, 1:00pm GMT

Antimicrobial stewardship leads share how they joined up guidance across primary and secondary care.

Dimitris Mitakos · Yosola Ibitoye

Toolkit

Your WAAW toolkit

Everything you need to bring WAAW to your team. Free to download and share.

WAAW screensaver preview

WAAW screensaver

Antimicrobial questions? Ask Eolas. Ready for workstations and shared screens.

PDF or PNG, 1920 x 1080

QR poster preview

QR poster

Antimicrobial questions? Ask Eolas. Pin it up where prescribing happens.

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Digital antimicrobial stewardship

The 7 capabilities that matter in a digital antimicrobial stewardship platform.

Coming soon

The evidence

What research says about point of care access to guidelines.

Coming soon

Community antimicrobial stewardship

Stewardship beyond the hospital, from community to primary care.

Coming soon

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Know a hospital that should get one?

Nominate a hospital or department in a country hit hard by AMR, including your own. You don’t need to play first. Nominations help us choose where the licences go.