Partnership to Enhance Antimicrobial use in Resource-Limited settings (PEARL)

Partnership to Enhance Antimicrobial use in Resource-Limited settings (PEARL)

An Assessment of Need and Feasibility of Antimicrobial Stewardship Programme; this study was funded by a Pilot grant fund from the Duke Global Health Institute. And this study was conducted at three sites in parallel (Teaching Hospital Karapitiya (THK) – Sri Lanka, Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) – Kenya, and Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (KCMC) – Tanzania). And the main objective was to identify the need for and barriers to implementation of antimicrobial stewardship programmes at tertiary care centers located in 3 disparate LMIC (low- or middle-income countries) settings: Sri Lanka, Kenya, and Tanzania. Data collection commenced in December 2017 and ended in December 2018. (Key investigators: Gayani Tillekeratne, Prof. Ajith Nagahawatte, Prof. Champica Bodinayake, Dr. Bhagya Piyasiri, Ms. Ruvini Kurukulasooriya, Prof. Christoper W. Woods, Prof. Truls Ostbye, Prof. Richard Drew, Prof. Melissa Watt, Prof. Peter Kussin.