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In the University of Minnesota’s CIDRAP, “World leaders agreed to a wide-ranging set of commitments to address antimicrobial resistance (AMR) through a One Health approach. The commitments are laid out in a political declaration adopted today by 193 United Nations (UN) member states at the UN High-Level Meeting on AMR in New York. While the […]

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In The New York Times, OHT’s Dr. Ramanan Laxminarayan explains how antimicrobial resistance has been framed as a problem of excess for so long – people and animals ingesting too many antibiotics – but the cause of the problem cannot be reduced just to that. ‘“Millions of people around the world have never even taken […]

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In Devex, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley spoke at an antimicrobial resistance (AMR) event co-organized by the One Health Trust held on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly. “She said, ‘The world needs to pause and get a few things right, and AMR is one of those things at the center of it.’ According […]

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In Devex‘s coverage of its event held alongside the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, OHT’s Ramanan Laxminarayan said, “Three key things are needed to curb this (AMR) crisis. First, there’s a need for stronger infection prevention efforts in low- and middle-income countries, such as clean water and adequate sanitation. Second, there’s a […]

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In Devex Newswire, “Dr. Jean Kaseya, director-general of Africa CDC, took the stage at the Harvard Club during UNGA to sound the alarm on antimicrobial resistance — a public health crisis that’s quietly killing 1.3 million people a year. AMR happens when bacteria and other pathogens evolve to outsmart the drugs we use to kill […]

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In the Macao news, “lower and middle-income countries contend with both AMR-related risks and a lack of access to antibiotics, even high-income countries are expected to see attributable deaths increase 53.6 percent. As Ramanan Laxminarayan of research institute One Health Trust told Euronews Health, ‘Everyone is at risk of a bacterial infection’ and increased drug […]

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The Pandora Report, “Ramanan Laxminarayan discusses the UN’s role in addressing AMR in this piece for Think Global Health: ‘Effective antibiotics, once taken for granted, are no longer a guarantee in any country. Since they were first introduced, the hundreds of millions of tons of antibiotics used—and sometimes overused—for medicine to improve human illness, in […]

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In ITN Business, “Ramanan Laxminarayan, from One Health Trust, tempers expectations by reminding us of the limitations inherent in large-scale political meetings. He notes that while the UNGA meeting is essential, it also represents ‘the lowest common denominator of what countries can agree on.’ He stresses that ‘AMR is too important to be left to […]

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In ITN Business, “Ramanan Laxminarayan, from One Health Trust, tempers expectations by reminding us of the limitations inherent in large-scale political meetings. He notes that while the UNGA meeting is essential, it also represents ‘the lowest common denominator of what countries can agree on.’ He stresses that ‘AMR is too important to be left to […]

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