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      

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

Lancet study finds Indians use more azithromycin, ofloxacin than needed

It’s an enormous health risk, say experts, as it can accelerate the problem of antimicrobial resistance, which is a grave public health issue

New certification scheme launched to ensure responsible antibiotic manufacturing in India

Manufacturers should provide effective environmental management and wastewater treatment systems to obtain this certification 

Drug research for children lags behind that for adults; WHO steps in to change it

Bacterial infections, such as pneumonia, neonatal sepsis, and gastrointestinal infections, are the leading causes of death among children worldwide

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

Rising antimicrobial resistance among newborns calls for novel antibiotic regimens

Newborn infection rates in low-income countries are three-20 times higher than in high-income countries

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

Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2021: Two crucial lessons for AMR on irrational antimicrobial use during COVID-19

Antibiotic misuse was more in strained healthcare systems such as India during COVID-19 than in high-income countries

Antimicrobial resistance: Use these ethnoveterinary medicines for Lumpy Skin Disease

Healthcare systems for livestock should be accessible, affordable and effective; ethnoveterinary medicine fulfils this criteria

Antimicrobial resistance: How factory farming is destroying our planet

The health and well-being of animals, people and our planet are interdependent. Poor animal health and welfare in intensive farming negatively …

Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2021: Antibiotic use trends in Mozambique’s veterinary sector and efforts to contain it

The country imports most of its veterinary antibiotics from the Netherlands, India, Argentina, South Africa, France and China  

Antibiotic use in food animals can be reduced by improving their welfare

Antibiotics should be reserved to treat animals, not used to promote fast growth or as band aids across the herd to prevent stressed …

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

Over half the antibiotic formulations India used in 2019 were unapproved

Despite being the largest antibiotic consumer in absolute volume globally, India lacks a formal system of antibiotic use surveillance

DTE Call For Action: The growing antibiotic resistance and antibiotic pipeline crisis

Worldwide, antibacterial treatment options are reducing, becoming expensive and less accessible

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

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

AMR Awareness Week: Educating teachers and students on antimicrobial use, resistance

Educating children on antimicrobial use instils responsible habits and attitudes early on, shaping the behaviour of future patients and caregivers

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