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Africa: After UN Report, New Focus On Antimicrobial Resistance in the Environment
spotlight, 12 April 2023
A recent United Nations report, titled 'Bracing for Superbugs: Strengthening environmental action in the One Health response to antimicrobial resistance', has put the Spotlight on… Read more »
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Tanzania: Strengthen Government's Surveillance of Counterfeit Medicine
Daily News, 6 April 2023
THE World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the top 10 global public health threats facing humanity and in essence, misuse and… Read more »
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South Africa: New Resistance Tests Set to Improve TB Treatment
spotlight, 24 November 2022
Some strains of the tuberculosis (TB) bacterium have mutated to become resistant to some of the drugs commonly used to treat TB. Accordingly, one of the first questions to ask when… Read more »
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Liberia: Guarding Against Antimicrobial Resistance in Liberia
WHO-AFRO, 21 November 2022
Soon after her emergency caesarean section procedure in 2021 in Phebe Hospital in Bong, Liberia, a young mother developed a far greater yet mystifying emergency: An infection… Read more »
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Africa: Quadripartite Welcomes New Political Commitments in Fight Against Antimicrobial Resistance
WHO, 25 November 2022
The Third Global High-Level Ministerial Conference on Antimicrobial Resistance, hosted in Muscat, Oman, concluded today, where targets to address the global antimicrobial… Read more »
Antimicrobial Resistance in Environment a Looming Crisis
A United Nations (UN) report has put new focus on the growing spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the environment. Several serious concerns flagged in the report, issued by the United Nations Environmental Programme, have now been echoed by leading South African scientists, Spotlight reports.
Antimicrobials - including antibiotics, antifungals, and antiseptics - are essential for reducing infectious diseases in humans, animals, and plants. But the UN agency reports that several of these treatments no longer work because of antimicrobial resistance.
The World Health Organization rates AMR in humans and animals to be one of the top ten threats to global health. Estimates suggest that by 2050, up to 10 million deaths could occur annually.
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