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In The Hindu, “Studies now indicate that unvaccinated or under-vaccinated children are vulnerable to preventable illnesses and have to seek medical care, which in many cases leads to an unnecessary abuse of antibiotics, fueling the epidemic of antimicrobial resistance.” Read more here.

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In Africa CDC, “Cape Town hosted the first World One Health Congress in Africa, where Africa CDC led a well-attended side event on antimicrobial resistance (AMR), a rapidly growing health threat across the continent. As noted in the coverage, a week after the One Health Congress, Africa CDC, in collaboration with One Health Trust and […]

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In the University of Oxford’s Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, “Dr Geetanjali Kapoor gives a series of talks on AMR surveillance best practices from 9 to 15 October, understanding real-world challenges associated with large datasets from disparate sources, laboratory methods, country workshops, and the importance of AMR surveillance. The series is based on […]

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In Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Safe Healthcare Blog, “On September 22, One Health Trust, CDC, and other partners co-hosted a side event where representatives from across the world discussed targets and shared feasible solutions to combating the growing public health threat of antimicrobial resistance. I spoke on a panel that acknowledged the limited […]

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In the University of Minnesota’s CIDRAP, “On September 26, the eyes of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) experts everywhere will be on New York, where world leaders and policymakers will gather for the second United Nations High-Level Meeting on AMR. Among those who’ll be watching is Ramanan Laxminarayan, PhD, MPH, founder and president of the One Health […]

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In BMJ, Jean Kaseya, director general of Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, spoke in New York at the symposium organized by the One Health Trust, ahead of the UN high-level meeting on antimicrobial resistance (AMR). “The head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has warned that the spread of […]

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In the Scidevnet, “Low- and middle-income countries are disproportionately affected by drug-resistant infections, partly because they also have the highest prevalence of infectious diseases. But, ‘there’s not a single country in the world that does not have this problem,’ says Ramanan Laxminarayan, director of the One Health Trust, a global health research organisation based in […]

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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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