Better access, stewardship practices by pharma companies needed for promising new antibiotics: ATMF report
Large pharmaceutical companies need to re-enter the antibiotic development space, make their unique expertise on access & commercialisation …
Lancet releases new series on AMR, underscores need for action with focus on LMICs
Series prioritises human cost, stressing infection prevention, affordable antibiotic access and attainable containment goals
Global team of experts identifies unifying global targets to combat AMR, says prevention is key
The simplicity of '1-10-100 targets' to fight AMR makes it easy to communicate the crisis and necessary measures to communities, say panelists at …
WHO’s new bacterial priority pathogen list emphasises on public health needs, infection burden of developing countries
BPPL 2024 includes 15 families of antibiotic-resistant pathogens and 24 bacterial pathogen-drug combinations
Fight against AMR: UN calls for global cooperation & agreement on pandemic treaty
Multi-sectoral cooperation, technology, innovation, research needed to tackle AMR, says Amina Mohammed
High-level event on AMR emphasises prevention approaches to tackle pipeline, access crisis for antibiotics & diagnostics
Global coordination necessary to develop new and affordable diagnostic testing, vaccines and antimicrobial alternatives, says Sunita Narain
Tackling AMR: For LMICs, prevention is the best solution, say experts at CSE's international workshop
Recommendations from workshop to inform High-Level Meeting on AMR scheduled at UN General Assembly later this year
FAO publishes first national report on AMR surveillance in India’s fisheries, livestock sectors
Data generated on AMR trends will be helpful to inform policy and decision making for AMR containment
Lack of access to antibiotics is a key driver of antimicrobial resistance
Sustainable access to antibiotics in low- and middle-income countries is crucial
AMR Awareness Week: FAO’s biosecurity protocol can help create healthy farms with less antibiotic use
The three-zone biosecurity initiative by FAO was originally launched in 2013 to contain avian flu outbreaks
Pushing antibiotic development agenda needs more support
Current investments are not enough, need to be supplemented
AMR Awareness Week: The link with climate change, water & why we need to incentivise measures against antimicrobial resistance
Many countries now have national AMR action plans, but implementation remains vastly different
AMR Awareness Week: US FDA is too close to meat and drug industries when it comes to protecting public health
FDA has helped to create antibiotic-intensive livestock system of US
Simply Put: Antimicrobial resistance
AMR Awareness Week: Subscription-based economic model can help unblock pipeline for new antibiotics
At present, drug development is only profitable if combination of prices and sales volumes is sufficiently high
Rise of AMR could result in up to 10 million annual deaths by 2050: UN report
AMR can push 24 million more people into extreme poverty by 2030
India poised to advance in antibiotic development: VS Chauhan & Nitin Yadav
CSE-DTE speak to Virander S Chauhan and Nitin Yadav, co-founders of Biotide Solutions LLP, about the global AMR scenario
The rise and fall of antibiotics. What would a post-antibiotic world look like?
Surveys have found 22% of antimicrobial use in hospitals is inappropriate
Antimicrobial resistance: Here’s what can be done to address environmental AMR in India
India is the world’s largest consumer of antibiotics in terms of total volume
DTE Coverage: World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2022
The WAAW 2022 concluded with the Muscat Ministerial Manifesto on AMR
Over half of prescribed antibiotics in India can lead to AMR, finds National Centre for Disease Control
High use of antibiotics found; recommends defined policies and monitoring consumption
AMR Awareness Week: How colistin went from 'holy water' in medicine to 'sewage' of resistance
More research is needed to find out the long-term effects of using colistin on humans
AMR Awareness Week: Tackling antimicrobial resistance is a critical global function
There are many advantages to using a global functions framework rather than just the narrow public goods framework
Antimicrobial resistance: Here is how to reduce AMR in factory farming
Key to combatting AMR is understanding its multistakeholder and multidimensional nature
AMR Awareness Week: Antimicrobial research and development needs greater push through policies
We need policies to reward R&D, bring products to market and ensure equitable access and prudent use