AMIS
Study period:Ongoing.
The AMIS Project Uganda is an anthropological research project aimed at better understanding the use of antimicrobials in Ugandan society. The study aims to understand the roles and context of antimicrobials in daily life in Tororo, Wakiso and Kampala districts from the perspective of health care providers, farmers and day wage urban workers. The research focuses on the ways in which antimicrobials enable particular ways of life and livelihoods and explores the context and the wider reasons for antimicrobial use in Uganda.
Objectives
- Documentary analysis of relevant literature, policy documents and public health and lay public media content and materials, to contextualize ethnographic findings.
- In-depth ethnographic fieldwork involving key informant interviews, participant observation and surveys to understand how antibiotics are intertwined in people’s lives, with a focus on why, and how, people rely on them.
- Stakeholder interviews to reach a better understanding of AMR policies and initiatives as well as ongoing research related to AMR.
- Participatory research activities carried out every 3 months to provide preliminary feedback on research findings in order to elicit feedback and discussion among participants and local public health officials.
- Health professionals online survey to assess awareness of AMR amongst trained health care workers and veterinarians. By addressing how people actually use antimicrobials, and the wide-reaching reasons for reliance on them, the study will provide a detailed account that can be used by policy makers working on antimicrobial resistance in Uganda today.
