Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2021: How resistance to antibiotics develops

Antimicrobials from food-producing animals enter the environment through excreta or animal manure

‘Vaccines can be a potent weapon to fight AMR’

Webinar by International vaccine institute, International Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance Solutions and Denmark ministry to discuss role of …

Researchers develop antimicrobial coating from agricultural waste

The researchers used lignin, a complex, woody biopolymer that is left over as stubble post-harvest

Report finds positive associations between antimicrobial use in animals and AMR in humans

Overuse and misuse of antimicrobials is one of the main drivers of antimicrobial resistance

Unregulated use of antibiotics a threat to public health, say experts

International experts have come together to deliberate on rising antimicrobial resistance

Health to harm: Researchers call for action against pharma pollution

New paper maps out UK healthcare system to understand pharmaceutical pollution from human healthcare

Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2021: Why water is important in the AMR debate

Access to safe water is one of the prerequisites for maintaining sound health and environment in a community and is also a responsibility of …

Antimicrobial resistance increasing yet data remains sparse

Data on some animal-sourced foods, associated with a growing number of food-borne illness outbreaks, was limited   

Simply Put: Antimicrobial resistance

Antimicrobial resistance: Here is how National AMR hub helps contain the silent pandemic

India was the highest consumer of antimicrobials, followed by China and the United States

Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2021: How to develop a template for community action on AMR

ReAct Asia Pacific is engaging community stakeholder groups to mainstream action on antibiotic resistance

Clear and present danger: Lancet study highlights AMR time bomb in India, world

A recent study in The Lancet showed alarming casualties due to antimicrobial resistance globally, especially Asia and Africa; it also …

EU ban on non-therapeutic antibiotic use in animals wake-up call for India

Even as the EU has put an end to preventive mass medication in animals, things have hardly moved in India

Indian government is not doing enough to tackle the sale of unapproved antibiotics

India's laissez-faire attitude to drug regulation is a serious threat to global efforts 

It is critical to view antimicrobial resistance through a multi-dimensional lens

Reducing pollution from the pharmaceutical, agricultural and healthcare sectors is needed to reduce the emergence, transmission and spread of …

Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2021: Surgical site infections worsening globally

Surgical site infections are the third-most common hospital-acquired infections in the world

Agronomic recommendations: How are antibiotics being used on crops?

A few antibiotics considered critically important for human medicine are being recommended for use on over 100 crops, an analysis has found

New molecule promises to address drug resistance

The new molecule is an antimicrobial peptide, which kills bacteria by breaking down their membranes

Antimicrobial Resistance: New CSE report focuses on major ethnoveterinary medicine programme  

AMR has been recognised as a ‘silent pandemic’ and is a global public health threat today  

Some good and bad news on antimicrobial resistance

While Indian researchers have found the presence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in a healthy human gut, British scientists have developed a …

New study finds antibiotic resistant gene in fresh food samples

A new study in India has found bacteria resistant to the most powerful antibiotic in fresh food samples such as chicken, fish and vegetables

Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2021: Nigeria’s challenges to implement action plan for food system protection

Implementing national action plan is cost-intensive and requires human resource 

Monitor resistance gene to help combat antimicrobial resistance: scientists

Scientists suggest that monitoring genes responsible for antimicrobial resistance will help track the problem

UN General Assembly discusses antimicrobial resistance

This is only the fourth time a health issue has been taken up by the UN General Assembly

India has highest rate of antibiotic resistance, says study

Low- and middle-income countries report the highest increase in antibiotic resistance