- September 27, 2024UN calls for action, accountability on antimicrobial resistance
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 […]
Read moreRead more Read More - September 26, 2024The Global Threat of Antibiotic Resistance
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 […]
Read moreRead more Read More - September 26, 2024Devex CheckUp: Can UNGA’s declaration make a real difference for AMR?
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 […]
Read moreRead more Read More - September 26, 2024Antimicrobial resistance is a ‘solvable problem,’ but needs momentum
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 […]
Read moreRead more Read More - September 24, 2024Devex Newswire: At UNGA, antibiotics (and US presidents) steal the spotlight
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 […]
Read moreRead more Read More - September 23, 2024World faces growing threat from antibiotic-resistant infections, study finds
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 […]
Read moreRead more Read More - September 20, 2024The Pandora Report
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 […]
Read moreRead more Read More - September 19, 2024Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs Could Kill 39 Million People by 2050, Researchers Warn
In Euronews – Spanish, “Antimicrobial resistance is already killing millions of people worldwide, but deaths could rise by 68% between 2021 and 2050, according to a major new study.” Read more here.
Read moreRead more Read More - September 17, 2024Experts share hopes ahead of the 2024 High Level Meeting on AMR
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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