India moves to tackle antibiotic resistance

Pakistan moves to tackle acid violence.

Rationalizing antibiotic use to limit antibiotic resistance in India+

Antibiotic resistance, a global concern, is particularly pressing in developing nations, including India, where the burden of infectious disease is high and healthcare spending is low. The Global Antibiotic Resistance Partnership (GARP) was established to develop actionable policy recommendations specifically relevant to low- and middle-income countries where suboptimal access to antibiotics - ...

How to tackle antimalarial resistance?

L ife has a prodigious capacity to overcome death, and this is exactly emblematic of drug resistance, one of the biggest threats for health systems, clinicians, researchers and patients. Several decades of intense and innovative drug discovery and development were not able to prevent the loss of medicines owing to resistance among viruses, bacteria and parasites. The common denominator to drug ...

Building bridges to operationalise one health – A Sino-Swedish collaboration to tackle antibiotic resistance

Antibiotic resistance is a complex global health challenge. The recent Global Action Plan on antimicrobial resistance highlights the importance of adopting One Health approaches that can cross traditional disciplinary boundaries. We report on the early experiences of a multisectoral Sino-Swedish research project that aims to address gaps in our current knowledge and seeks to improve the situati...

Applying the emergency risk management process to tackle the crisis of antibiotic resistance

We advocate that antibiotic resistance be reframed as a disaster risk management problem. Antibiotic-resistant infections represent a risk to life as significant as other commonly occurring natural disasters (e.g., earthquakes). Despite efforts by global health authorities, antibiotic resistance continues to escalate. Therefore, new approaches and expertise are needed to manage the issue. In th...