- December 8, 2023Vaccines Can Help Mitigate Antimicrobial Resistance
An article published in The Financial Express covers the “Antimicrobial Resistance and Vaccines Workshop – Bangladesh” held in Dhaka and organized by the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) and the Global Antibiotic Resistance Partnership (GARP), an initiative led by OHT to promote actionable policies to control the emergence and spread of drug […]
Read moreRead more Read More - November 14, 2023Gonorrhea Is Becoming Drug Resistant. Scientists Just Found a Solution.
An article published in The New York Times covers the exciting story about the groundbreaking oral treatment for gonorrhea, Zoliflodacin, acing its phase 3 clinical trials. The nonprofit, GARDP, developed the antibiotic in collaboration with an American pharmaceutical company called Innoviva Specialty Therapeutics. The nonprofit sponsored the Phase 3 trial of the drug. In exchange, it holds […]
Read moreRead more Read More - November 10, 2023Antibiotics that Fight Deadly Infections in Babies are Losing Their Power
An article and podcast published in NPR’s Goats and Soda highlights the troubling results of new research published in The Lancet Regional Health – Southeast Asia — the most commonly prescribed antibiotics in Southeast Asia are now only 50% effective at treating sepsis and meningitis in newborns. This is largely due to growing resistance to […]
Read moreRead more Read More - November 6, 2023Dr. Ramanan Laxminarayan: Antimicrobial Resistance, We May Be in the Darkest Hour Before the Dawn
In an interview published by the Cambridge Core on behalf of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, OHT’s Dr. Ramanan Laxminarayan says, “I am optimistic that 20 years from now, we will have addressed this (antimicrobial resistance) in a significant way through a combination of tools, and we’ll look back and say that there […]
Read moreRead more Read More - October 3, 2023Ukraine infections show rising threat from antibiotic resistance
Out in the Financial Times, an article highlights the rising prevalence of antimicrobial resistance in war-torn Ukraine. In early 2023, doctors found that a soldier in Ukraine who was wounded in the country’s armed conflict with Russia had an infection that was resistant to almost every antibiotic available. Despite the spread of antibiotic-resistant infections in several parts of […]
Read moreRead more Read More - October 3, 2023What happens when pharmaceutical pollutants enter the environment?
Published in the Mongabay-India, an article highlights the impact of pharmaceutical pollution on the health and well-being of humans and animals and how it is driving the emergence of antimicrobial resistance. Chemical compounds from antibiotics and other pharmaceuticals enter the environment through three primary ways—wastewater discharged from manufacturing facilities, human and animal excreta and […]
Read moreRead more Read More - September 28, 2023Dangerous Heat Waves Expose India’s Inequality
An article published in The Washington Post delves into the ways global warming and heat waves expose India’s inequality and affect the health and well-being of people living in slums and other crowded areas with water shortages and long power outages in Kolkata, India. As life gets hotter, residents who are crowded into slums or unauthorized colonies […]
Read moreRead more Read More - September 15, 2023Solving for Oxygen: Why policymakers should work to make medical oxygen more accessible
The One Health Trust’s Dr. Ramanan Laxminarayan co-authored an article in Think Global Health, an initiative from the Council on Foreign Relations, that raised concerns over the non-inclusion of access to medical oxygen in the agenda of the UN General Assembly High-Level Meeting on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness, and Response, to be held in late September […]
Read moreRead more Read More - August 11, 2023Air Pollution Linked To Rising Antibiotic Resistance
The Guardian covered the results of a global study published in the Lancet Planetary Health Journal. Researchers found that air pollution is driving the prevalence of antibiotic resistance which poses a significant threat to human health worldwide. The analysis used data from the One Health Trust’s ResMap, which included information from 100 countries over the […]
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