July 04, 2024
In Setopati, OHT’s Rishiraj Bhagawati and Director of GARP, Nepal, Sameer Mani Dixit wrote an op-ed about the role of vaccines in controlling the spread of antimicrobial resistance in Nepal.
“A recently published series of papers in the highly cited journal Lancet highlighted that AMR has been on the rise globally in recent decades and estimates from some countries show that resistance to last-resort antibiotics could more than double in 2035 as compared to 2005. This is a dire scenario wherein even the strongest antimicrobial drugs available are unable to treat the infection. The Lancet series also underlines the fact that the impact of rising AMR is not felt uniformly across the globe – low- and middle-income countries bear the biggest brunt. South Asia, for instance, accounts for 77 AMR-associated deaths in a population of 100,000.”
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