The catch-22 of mass-prescribing antibiotics.

Wired– May 10, 2018. “I am not saying this kind of use has no place at all; it may have a role for some populations and for some period of time,” says Ramanan Laxminarayan, the founder of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy and a prominent researcher into developing-world antibiotic policy. “But we have to also be working on water, sanitation, nutrition. This can be a stopgap, but it cannot be an endless strategy for saving children’s lives.”