Africa: When Medicines Don't Work Anymore

4 December 2017

Penang, Malaysia — The growing crisis of antibiotic resistance is catching the attention of policy makers, but not at a rate enough to tackle it.

More diseases are affected by resistance, meaning the bacteria cannot be killed even if different drugs are used on some patients, who then succumb.

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