The crisis within the crisis: antimicrobial resistance and access to antibiotics in Africa

OHT researchers and MAAP collaborators find that current AMR surveillance methods in 14 African countries cannot sufficiently tackle inappropriate antibiotic use. One Health Trust and other partners in the Mapping Antimicrobial Resistance and Antimicrobial Use (MAAP) consortium reviewed 819,584 AMR records collected between 2016 and 2019 from 205 laboratories across 14 African countries. The findings … Continue reading The crisis within the crisis: antimicrobial resistance and access to antibiotics in Africa