September 24, 2024
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 them — and, according to The Lancet, from 2025 to 2050 there will be 39.1 million deaths attributable to AMR, and 169 million deaths associated with AMR. By 2050, as the African population is expected to double, AMR-associated deaths could rise to 4.1 million annually.
‘You are looking at the face of someone who is in trouble,’ Kaseya said, pointing to himself.”
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