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Study highlights high antimicrobial resistance rates, limited data in African countries

The University of Minnesota’s CIDRAP featured a major new study by One Health Trust researchers and collaborators.  This is the largest retrospective analysis to date on antimicrobial susceptibility data from African countries. The study, published in PLOS Medicine, reveals high levels (up to 70% in some countries) of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in critical pathogens such as […]

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  • Silent Pandemic

    The Lancet Respiratory Medicine — November 29, 2022. “Kenya is attempting to tackle antimicrobial resistance by linking licensure of pharmacies with submission of data on the number of antibiotic sales, though Ramanan Laxminarayan (US Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antimicrobial Resistance) questions whether such an approach is sufficiently honed. ‘More people die because of lack […]

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  • Steady Decline In Covid Due To Hybrid Immunity But Virus Here To Stay: Experts

    PTI — November 11, 2022. “There seems to be sufficient cross-protection between vaccination, especially those who have received a booster, and the new strains so we should be protected for a while,” Laxminarayan, director of the Washington-based One Health Trust, formerly known as the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy, told PTI.

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  • Africa: Anti-Microbial Resistance Strategies Need Urgent Attention to Prevent Unnecessary Deaths in Africa

    AllAfrica — November 3, 2022. As part of the Mapping Antimicrobial Resistance and Antimicrobial Use Partnership (MAAP), the One Health Trust supported a newly published study investigating the AMR crisis across Africa.

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  • Three Years In

    Think Global Health — October 27, 2022. “Think Global Health asked global health expert Ramanan Laxminarayan, president of One Health Trust, and senior research scholar at Princeton University, to share a bird’s eye view of health right now in India, three years into the pandemic—what the country has lost and learned and where its strengths […]

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  • ACT-A: “The international architecture did not work for us”

    The Lancet — October 22, 2022. “The lack of medical oxygen caused a significant number of deaths in India. We had an entire year to prepare once we knew that this was a respiratory disease. Medical oxygen is a fairly simple intervention that could have saved many lives in the absence of vaccines or therapeutics. […]

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  • India launches Blueprint for National Medical Oxygen Grid

    India Med Today — October 20, 2022. “Dr Ramanan Laxminarayan, Founder and President, OHT, said, ‘The NMOG would work much like the electricity grid, with both centralised production units (Air Separation Units – ASUs) with their storage and transmission systems, and decentralized production (Pressure Swing Adsorption – PSA and oxygen concentrators) to meet the current […]

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  • Blueprint for the National Medical Oxygen Grid launched

    Bio Voice News — October 20, 2022. “Dr. Ramanan Laxminarayan, the Founder and President of OHT, said, ‘The NMOG would work much like the electricity grid, with both centralized production units (Air Separation Units – ASUs) with their own storage and transmission systems, and decentralized production (Pressure Swing Adsorption – PSA and oxygen concentrators) to […]

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  • Blueprint for National Medical Oxygen Grid released

    Medical Buyer — October 20, 2022. “Ramanan Laxminarayan, founder and president of OHT, said an ideal oxygen grid for the country would work much like an electricity grid, with central generation (liquid medical oxygen), transmission (tankers and cylinders), storage (liquid and gaseous), and decentralised production (pressure swing adsorption generators and oxygen concentrators).”

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  • Hospital Oxygen Plants not enough India needs National Medical Oxygen Grid : Report

    Money Control — October 20, 2022. “The report titled ‘Blueprint for the National Medical Oxygen Grid’ by research organisation One Health Trust assessed the current mechanisms for the availability of medical oxygen in India and suggested ways to improve it.”

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