VINARES, an initiative to strengthen antimicrobial stewardship in Vietnam, may help and instruct other countries struggling to assess the threat of antimicrobial resistance.

The authors describe the challenges faced in Viet Nam and how they launched and have measured the impact of VINARES, which is intended to galvanize political and medical leadership including national and local stakeholders and to provide "the impetus and infrastructure for self-sufficient infection surveillance and antimicrobial stewardship in Vietnam for the long-term."
Source-Eurekalert