Uduyars

01/01/2026

🎶 For a Better World, For a Future Bright: Happy New Year 2026 🎉

As we step into a brand new year, our wish for you is simple: healing for everyone.

This year, let’s make a collective resolution to protect the gift of health. As our song reminds us:

"Health is a gift we must protect, so drugs should be used with utmost respect."

Let 2026 be the year we stop the spread of antimicrobial resistance.

Let's pledge to:
✅ Seek professional help when ill.
✅ Follow prescriptions strictly.
🚫 Say NO to self-medication.

From all of us at UDUYARS, we wish you a prosperous, healthy, and AMR-free year ahead!

Turn up the volume, listen to the message, and let's work together "For a happy end!" 🌍💜

17/12/2025

Sub‑Saharan Africa suffers a disproportionate burden of antimicrobial resistance, driven by self-medication, poor hygiene, and limited public awareness. In Nigeria, these drivers are widespread, making behaviour change at the community level essential.

To confront this threat, UDUYARS launched the National Youth AMR Campaign (NaYAMR) 2025. During World AMR Awareness Week 2025 and beyond. 31 youth-led campaigns delivered clear, practical AMR prevention messages across 10 Nigerian states, including the Federal Capital Territory, and communities in Tanzania and Cameroon. Volunteers used local languages and culturally relevant communications to connect with schools, campuses, markets, religious centres, and online audiences.

NaYAMR was coordinated as part of the Quadripartite AMR Multistakeholder Partnership Platform and the Action Group on Drivers of AMR, in partnership with the GLOBAL YOUTH INNOVATION COUNCIL (GYIC), SHIELD Nigeria, and multiple youth networks. This ensured aligned messaging and technical quality across each group.

The campaign reached more than 6,600 people- 6,107 in Nigeria (≈ 92 %), 305 in Tanzania (≈ 5 %), and 81 in Cameroon (≈ 1 %). Participants learned what AMR is, why antibiotic misuse drives resistance, and the importance of completing prescriptions and practising good hygiene, empowering students and community members to act as AMR stewards.

NaYAMR 2025 shows that organised and well-supported youth leadership can deliver meaningful public health impact at scale, even with limited resources. Continued investment in youth-led initiatives and partnerships will be essential to sustain and expand subsequent projects.

The full report is available on our website: https://www.uduyars.org/nayamr-campaign-2025/

21/11/2025

At Uduyars, we continue to receive inspiring reports from young people driving the NaYAMR Campaign across campuses and communities nationwide. This momentum reflects a growing youth movement committed to reducing the spread of antimicrobial resistance in Nigeria (reports will be shared as previously announced).

This week, our team visited one of the most overlooked hotspots in the transmission of resistant pathogens, the abattoir. Despite being central to food production, it remains largely excluded from public health conversations. Many butchers and livestock handlers had never heard of antimicrobial resistance, even though several shared lived experiences of infections that were unusually difficult to treat.

We engaged them in their local language to ensure everyone could understand the core issues. Our discussions focused on safe antibiotic use in animals, avoiding drug residues in meat, and strengthening hygiene practices to limit the spread of harmful bacteria. Their openness to learn and willingness to adopt safer practices highlight the importance of bringing AMR education directly to the frontlines of risk.

This field visit reinforced an urgent truth. Awareness gaps in high-risk environments continue to fuel resistant infections in our communities. Yet with targeted, culturally grounded communication, people are ready to act.

We are committed to expanding these grassroots engagements and ensuring no community is left behind in the fight against AMR.

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19/11/2025

The fight against antimicrobial resistance is our collective action. Let's use antibiotics wisely.

18/11/2025

Every day, infections are becoming harder to treat, and the consequences are already reshaping health outcomes across Africa. As we begin World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2025, we are launching the NaYAMR 2025 National Youth AMR Campaign at a moment when decisive action is no longer optional.

Antimicrobial resistance is now responsible for an estimated 1.27 million deaths each year, with Africa carrying the highest mortality rate worldwide according to leading global health estimates.

In Nigeria alone, resistant infections are contributing to rising treatment failures, longer hospital stays, and avoidable deaths, especially among children and vulnerable populations.

When antibiotics stop working, even minor wounds and common infections can become life-threatening. This is the reality we are already living in.

This is why young people across the country are stepping forward this week. They will be engaging markets, schools, campuses, online communities, and local gatherings to help families understand the dangers of antibiotic misuse and to promote safe behaviors that protect everyone.

With over 70 percent of Nigeria’s population under 30, our collective action can shift the national trajectory if we act now.

Your involvement can save lives. You can lead a community sensitization, share verified messages online, or support an existing activity.

Every single effort contributes to slowing resistance and protecting the medicines we all depend on.

Join the network of young Nigerians mobilizing nationwide: https://chat.whatsapp.com/LpD0RiuKMQ5HxCMinEsL2G?mode=wwt

Here is a guide to help you plan and deliver your activity: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1uk26JeqC7NX90PSRYbuxX7bQKbqQk9g_?usp=sharing

This week is more than awareness. It is a call to protect the health of our communities and make sure antibiotics remain effective for the next generation.

Let us act with urgency, clarity, and purpose.

— NaYAMR 2025 Campaign Team

17/11/2025

17/11/2025

Dearest stewards 👏

The long-awaited World AMR awareness week is finally here. Tomorrow, we officially kick off the National Youth AMR Campaign, and we are excited for what we will achieve together. Stay alert for the launch.

Throughout this week, young people across the country will be driving community awareness on antimicrobial resistance. These changemakers are stepping forward to protect their communities, strengthen health literacy, and build resilience against a threat that continues to grow every day.

In a region like Africa, where young people make up the majority of the population, we must act now to protect today and secure our future.

If you would like to be part of this movement, you can join the community of young people carrying out campaigns across the nation here: https://chat.whatsapp.com/LpD0RiuKMQ5HxCMinEsL2G?mode=wwt

To help you get ready, here is a resource to guide your engagement.

Together, we can stop the occurrence and spread of AMR.

16/11/2025

Recently, we convened young leaders from across Nigeria for our National Youth AMR Campaign pre-onboarding webinar, marking the official beginning of this year’s National youth-led campaign against antimicrobial resistance.

The energy and commitment in the room reflected exactly what this moment demands. AMR continues to threaten our health systems, our food systems, and the future of effective treatments. Strengthening community awareness and promoting responsible practices have never been more urgent.

Through this campaign, young people will step forward as community educators, advocates, and champions. Each participant will lead an awareness activity in their school, neighbourhood, faith community, or local market. By localising global AMR messages, they will help their communities understand how superbugs spread and the simple actions that can prevent them.

We are grateful to every young person who joined the webinar and to our partners who continue to believe in youth leadership as a driving force for change. Over the coming days, we will share the official communication toolkit, reporting guidance, and step-by-step instructions for the campaign rollout.

This is an open call for participation. The fight against AMR is our collective responsibility. Together, we can build informed communities and reduce the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance.