September 27, 2024
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 the US and India.
‘This is not like tuberculosis or diarrhea, or something. Every country has a problem,’ said Laxminarayan, who was a key contributor to The Lancet series and involved in negotiating the draft political declaration.”
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