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Recently, my brief tenure in the British government came to an end, following the completion of an independent review on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) that I had been chairing.
But, as we prepare to face new political trials, we must not lose sight of the challenges we already face, especially global health challenges like the rise of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which has no regard for economic performance or political stability.
Using Antibiotics WiselyLONDON – To solve the problem of antimicrobial resistance, the world needs not only new drugs, but also new behavior – by all seven billion of us.
Developing new drugs is an important approach in a coordinated response to fight antimicrobial resistance.
Most people are either completely oblivious to antimicrobial resistance or incorrectly believe that it is an individual’s body that becomes drug resistant – not the bacteria itself.
We need a similar effort to address the perils of antimicrobial resistance.
Enlisting these medical social-media superstars to educate the public on the urgency of antimicrobial resistance is an exciting opportunity.
The cost of a global effort to raise awareness of the threat of antimicrobial resistance would be miniscule compared to the amount being spent to develop new drugs and technologies, which in any case will take years to become available.
One consequence has been a rise in antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which is now a top global health threat.
Today, the biggest risks to stable and prosperous societies – such as unabated climate change, overwhelming pandemics, and the rise of antimicrobial resistance – are global in nature, and therefore need to be addressed collectively.
In addition, vaccination is a crucial instrument in the fight against one of the twenty-first century’s biggest health challenges: antimicrobial resistance.
In contrast to unexpected, rapidly spreading outbreaks such as the Zika epidemic, antimicrobial resistance is like a slow-motion car crash that has already begun.
As a result, we are not moving fast enough to develop the types of vaccines that could be used to prevent antimicrobial resistance.
Maximizing the potential of vaccines to fight antimicrobial resistance thus requires the wider application of existing vaccines in humans and animals.
Back to Disease-Fighting BasicsLONDON – Combating antimicrobial resistance will require groundbreaking technological solutions.
To prevent superbugs from claiming an estimated ten million lives a year by 2050, we will need to invent new types of antimicrobial drugs and develop rapid diagnostic tests to avoid unnecessary treatment and cut our massive overuse of antibiotics.
Several of Snow’s methods are directly applicable to the modern problem of antimicrobial resistance.
As antimicrobial drugs became more widely available, however, the focus moved away from preventive measures.
On the contrary, in the race to prevent antimicrobial resistance (AMR), the world has a potent if underused tool: vaccines.
How to Fight Antimicrobial ResistanceZURICH – Two weeks ago, G20 leaders committed to working together to address one of the world’s most pressing and perplexing security threats: antimicrobial resistance (AMR) – a fierce and evolving adversary against which conventional therapeutic weapons are of no use.
When traditional market mechanisms fail, instruments such as “transferable market exclusivities” can help, by allowing drug makers to transfer an antimicrobial medicine’s intellectual-property benefits to another drug.
The Global Security Threat of Antimicrobial ResistanceSEATTLE – Today we are faced with the harsh reality that the treatment or prevention of infectious diseases has not made quantum advances since the early successes of vaccines and antimicrobial therapies.
The global threat of emerging or resistant infections must be viewed first and foremost in that context, with all countries committed to providing financing, intellectual capital, and available resources to support the discovery, development, manufacture, stockpiling, and equitable distribution of new antimicrobial agents and vaccines.
In 2015, the World Health Assembly, the World Health Organization’s decision-making body, adopted a global action plan to address antimicrobial resistance.
The growing capacity of pathogens to resist antibiotics and other antimicrobial drugs is turning into the greatest emerging crisis in contemporary health care – and it is a crisis that cannot be solved by science alone.
This is true not only for antimicrobial resistance.
Presuming that it does (but even if it does not), the UK government should continue to lead the charge against antimicrobial resistance (AMR), as it has in the past.
To make a bad situation worse, it is also a major cause of deaths linked to antimicrobial resistance, as well as the leading killer of people with HIV.
There still is no vaccine; while antibiotics are effective if administered early, the threat of antimicrobial resistance is real.
As antibiotics enter the environment through the food people eat or the waste animals produce, antimicrobial resistance intensifies.
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