Comic book and info-videos: Discovering Antibiotic Resistance

by Kelvin MomanyiOct 9, 2019

“Antibiotics are medicines which are used to treat bacterial infections. bacteria can make both people and animals sick in many ways, including skin infections, chest infections, eye infections and some types of diarrhoea.”

“Bacteria can become antibiotic-resistance, which means they are able to stop antibiotics working against them. This means the infections that the bacteria cause are harder to treat. This is a problem which can affect anyone, living in any country, all around the world.”

Bacteria are tiny germs that can make humans and animals sick

“In this comic you can follow Nanjala as she learns all about antibiotic resistance, including the causes and some of the actions that can be taken to help fight this challenge. We hope that Nanjala’s amazing journey will inspire all children reading this comic to spread the important messages about how to use antibiotics safely, helping to fight the threat of antibiotic resistance!”

“The comic is published as part of a project raising awareness of antibiotic resistance, supported by the Economic and Social Research Council of UK Research and Innovation (supporting Evidence-Based Policy: a longitudinal study of MR risk behaviours among livestock keeping communities in India and Kenya, project number ES/P00492x/2).”

Project lead: Professor Claire Heffernan, Royal Veterinary College, UK
Project team: Dr Naomi Bull, Sara Dada and Kiron Jones
Illustrator: Joe Barasa
Please access the scanned copy of the comic book here (for english version) and here (for swahili version). If you are parent/guardian/teacher/adult please download and read through the book with your child/juniour. It will go a long way in educating more people on antibiotic resistance.

ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE INFO-VIDEOS

While working for the International Livestock Research Institute I participated in developing amazing info-videos on antimicrobial resistance which can be viewed at the links below: