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Gurgaon is home to a lot of high-flying technology firms, and on this trip I visited one of India's leading diagnostics companies, SRL Diagnostic, which is developing tools that could improve the use of
antibiotics.
Treatment consists of a cocktail of
antibiotics
(four drugs for two months, followed by two drugs for four months) that, if correctly applied, can cure over 95% of TB cases for about $30 per case.
To avoid that outcome, in May the Review on AMR that I lead published its strategy for tackling such infections, laying out proposals to ensure the development of the necessary new antibiotics, and to use existing
antibiotics
more efficiently in humans and agriculture.
At the G20, the needed agreement should focus on developing a global mechanism to re-invigorate the market for new
antibiotics
that are globally affordable, accessible, and used as efficiently as possible.
At the UN, the goal should be to turn the mantra of “access, not excess” into a reality, with an agreement to reduce the unnecessary use of
antibiotics
in agriculture, and to spearhead a global awareness campaign.
Increased funding for research and development of new
antibiotics
and diagnostics to fight AMR is also vital.
Because of the misuse and overuse of antibiotics, common infections such as pneumonia and tuberculosis are becoming increasingly resistant to existing treatments; in some cases, they have become completely immune.
We also need to reduce our demand for
antibiotics
and understand that they can sometimes do more harm than good.
According to one estimate, nearly half of all prescriptions for
antibiotics
in the United States are inappropriate or unneeded.
A better understanding of when to use antibiotics, and how to use them effectively, will help people use them responsibly.
The result was a series of short, witty films explaining simply and humorously how
antibiotics
can be misused.
The BRIC countries – Brazil, Russia, India, and China – consume fewer
antibiotics
per person than the US.
But they are rapidly catching up as the rate of
antibiotics
consumption outstrips the pace of economic growth.
But after further tests I discovered that she was carrying a strain of bacteria that is resistant to most
antibiotics
in our therapeutic arsenal.
Around the world, people are being admitted to hospitals with infections that do not respond to antibiotics, and relatively benign germs – like Klebsiella and E. coli – have become potent killers, shrugging off medicines that in the past easily contained them.
When microbes are repeatedly exposed to antibiotics, the bacteria eventually win.
In developed countries, doctors prescribe
antibiotics
for even the most basic maladies, like the common cold.
Stronger regulations of
antibiotics
prescriptions in these countries, like those implemented in Finland several decades ago, could help to mitigate resistance.
Yet such rules alone will not be enough, because in much of the developing world,
antibiotics
can be obtained without a prescription.
And when farmers uses
antibiotics
to speed the growth of chickens and other livestock, drug-resistant germs find new ways to enter the environment.
In 2017, the World Health Organization, in an effort to address these challenges, classified
antibiotics
into three groups and issued guidance for how each class of drugs should be used to treat 21 of the most common infections.
And the third group, including colistin and other “last resort” antibiotics, are drugs that must be used sparingly and only for medical emergencies.
In India, for example, we must implement the regulation, formulated by the Indian Health Ministry, controlling over-the-counter sales of
antibiotics.
India’s Red Line campaign – which demands that prescription-only
antibiotics
be marked with a red line, to discourage the over-the-counter sale of antibiotics– is a step forward.
“Last resort”
antibiotics
should never be used as growth promoters in livestock farming, but achieving this will require significant changes to current practices.
Now a study of severely demented patients in Boston-area nursing homes shows that the “friend” is often being fought with
antibiotics.
The study, carried out by Erika D’Agata and Susan Mitchell and recently published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, showed that over 18 months, two-thirds of 214 severely demented patients were treated with
antibiotics.
It isn’t clear that using
antibiotics
in these circumstances prolongs life, but even if it did, one would have to ask: what is the point?
In many cases, the
antibiotics
were administered intravenously, which can cause discomfort.
Moreover, D’Agata and Mitchell suggest that the use of so many
antibiotics
by patients with dementia carries a different kind of cost: it exacerbates the growing problem of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, putting other patients at risk.
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