We help communities use antibiotics well and need them less.
STOP AMR works with communities, health workers, pharmacists, farmers and schools to reduce unnecessary antibiotic use, and publishes what works so that others can adapt it. Our field work began in rural India; our methods and materials are open to communities everywhere.
Antimicrobial resistance: the evidence
Deaths worldwide directly attributable to bacterial AMR, 2021
1.14 million
Laboratory-confirmed bacterial infections resistant to antibiotics, 2023
1 in 6
UN target for cutting deaths associated with AMR by 2030
10%
Global estimates, not STOP AMR results. Sources: GBD 2021 AMR Collaborators, The Lancet, 2024; WHO GLASS report, 2025; UN General Assembly political declaration, 2024.
Where antibiotics go after they are sold
Antibiotics, and the resistant bacteria they select for, move between people, animals and the environment. That is why we work across all three, an approach known as One Health.
People
Bought without a prescription, shared within families, or taken for illnesses they cannot treat, such as colds and flu.
Animals
Added to feed or given to healthy animals to prevent illness, rather than used to treat sick ones.
Land and water
Residues and resistant bacteria carried into ponds, fields and drains from homes, farms, clinics and factories.
Our work
Three lines of work, each with its current status.
November 2024
Community radio and training
With a community health partner in rural India, we funded a week of daily community radio programs on germs, antibiotics and resistance, and follow-up training on preventing infections.
Applications closed
Project TARDIS: research training
A six-month mentored program in epidemiology and research methods for early-career clinicians, from first workshop to submitted manuscript. Our first cohort ran from September 2025 to March 2026.
Active
Research and policy
We study why antibiotics are overused in households and on small farms, and how countries put their national AMR action plans into practice.
Where the work happens
Our field work began in rural India, with local community health partners. Our research training, policy analysis and published materials are not tied to one place: they are open to communities, health workers and researchers anywhere.
How STOP AMR is run
STOP AMR is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States.
What a gift does
In 2024 we awarded a grant of $1,781 to a community health partner in rural India for a week of daily radio programs on antibiotics and resistance and for community training on preventing infections. Gifts of any size fund work like this.
STOP AMR is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Gifts are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
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