September 27, 2024
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 2016 meeting aimed to raise global awareness of AMR, today’s meeting was focused on scaling up global, regional, and national efforts to tackle the problem. Setting a target goal of reducing global AMR deaths by 10% by 2030, the declaration calls on countries to fully implement and fund national AMR action plans, to reduce inappropriate antibiotic use in people and animals, to ensure equitable and timely access to antibiotics in all countries, to prioritize infection prevention efforts, and to promote efforts to boost antibiotic research and development.
AMR and public health experts reached by CIDRAP News say that the declaration, while not including everything they wanted to see, largely meets the moment.
‘I think it’s a far better document than what we had 8 years ago,’ said One Health Trust Founder and President Ramanan Laxminarayan, PhD, MPH.”
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