September 20, 2024
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 livestock for growth promotion, and in agriculture to prevent and treat plant diseases, have resulted in the gradual accumulation of resistance genes in disease causing bacteria, leading to the ability to evade antibiotics and develop AMR.’ ”
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