Global Future Councils
Global Future Council on the Future of Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is already a leading cause of death globally, higher than HIV/AIDS or malaria. What novel approaches are needed to accelerate effective action on AMR?
Antibiotics are drugs designed to treat infections caused by bacteria (for example, skin infections). They don’t work on infections caused by other microbes such as viruses (including COV...
Bacterial resistance to antibiotics kills between 1.25-5 million people every year. So why is antimicrobial resistance (AMR) not given the priority or funding that some other health probl...
A few weeks ago, the Lancet published an analysis which concluded that global mortality associated with antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been greatly underestimated, and that with 3,500...
