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Without such a consistent reminder of the need to tackle AMR, not to mention transparency about progress, the world could become sidetracked and miss the rapidly closing window of opportunity to deliver the changes needed to stop the rise of drug-resistant infections.
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.
According to the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance, which I chair, drug-resistant infections kill at least 700,000 people every year.
In some parts of the world, the best way to combat drug resistance will be to encourage changes in behavior that reduce the spread of infections and minimize the need for treatment.
Health Care’s New FrontierBEIJING – Developing countries face a seemingly insurmountable hurdle in providing health care to their rapidly growing – or, in some cases, rapidly aging – populations, especially as health systems become increasingly over-burdened and infections and other diseases spread.
Similar efforts are underway on many other fronts – the control of worm infections and leprosy, and now a major global effort to bring malaria deaths nearly to zero by 2015.
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.
Each year, an estimated 750,000 people die from antimicrobial-resistant (AMR) infections, and the death toll will climb unless the global health community acts decisively.
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.
Amoxicillin, the preferred medicine for respiratory-tract infections in children, is in this group.
As a result, huge progress has been made in preventing infections and keeping people living with HIV alive.
Precisely because malaria differs in this way from other infections, its economic harm is so huge.
But what if there was a way to “tune” bodies to reject all infections?
A third key health trend in 2017 was further progress toward the elimination of human onchocerciasis, which causes blindness, impaired vision, and skin infections.
Fourth on my list is a dramatic drop in the number of guinea-worm disease infections.
About 350,000 infants became HIV positive in 2008, through pregnancy, labor, delivery, or breastfeeding, accounting for approximately 20% of all new infections.
Bollinger calculated that annual investment of $2 million over five years would achieve 100% safe blood transfusions by 2015 and avert more than 131,000 HIV infections, while alleviating fears of infection for the almost half-billion people who would otherwise receive blood that was not comprehensively screened.
It’s a proposal that deserves further investigation, as is the proposition from William McGreevey of Georgetown University to increase efforts to focus treatment of HIV positive patients to reduce opportunistic infections of Cryptococcal Meningitis.
By preventing infections, vaccines also prevent overuse of antibiotics, thereby slowing down the development of drug resistance.
To be sure, there is still considerable work to be done, but the downward trend in new infections and deaths underscores the power of collaboration among governments (in malaria endemic and non-endemic countries alike), between commercial and non-profit organizations, and between academic science and medicine.
The approach is simple: a redoubled effort to reduce infections and deaths rapidly in the malaria “heartland” (i.e., equatorial Africa and a handful of other areas around the world) should be accompanied by a campaign to roll back the disease from its current margins.
Children exposed to these conditions are vulnerable to opportunistic infections such as pneumonia and even polio.
As a result, once-treatable infections are becoming deadly again.
If this abuse of antibiotics does not end, we will soon find ourselves without drugs to treat bacterial infections effectively.
A tenth of the annual cost of the Kyoto Protocol – or a tenth of the US budget this year for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan – would prevent nearly 30 million new infections of HIV/AIDS.
But vaccines also have a crucial role to play in protecting us against a far deadlier and far more predictable threat: drug-resistant infections.
By reducing the number of infections, they limit the need for medication.
Every year, infections caused by the Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria kill more than 800,000 children under the age of five.
Vaccines also have an important role to play in protecting livestock and fish from infections, optimizing the application of antibiotics in agriculture – where their overuse is an important cause of growing resistance.
On the contrary, the cases identified so far may be only the tip of the iceberg, with a much larger number of asymptomatic infections posing a risk to public health through secondary transmission.
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