India among top countries for hospital-acquired resistant infections: Study

136 million such infections globally; China, Pakistan and India bear highest burden

AMR Awareness Week: Antimicrobial research and development needs greater push through policies

We need policies to reward R&D, bring products to market and ensure equitable access and prudent use

Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2021: How resistance to antibiotics develops

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

Disinfectants harboring toxic chemicals are widely used despite lack of screening for potential health hazards

Quaternary ammonium compounds, or QACs, are increasingly marketed and used with limited evidence for their appropriateness or safety

Simply Put: Picasso and AMR

The rise and fall of antibiotics. What would a post-antibiotic world look like?

Surveys have found 22% of antimicrobial use in hospitals is inappropriate

‘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 …

New OECD report highlights importance of One Health action to tackle AMR

One in every five infections in OECD and EU/EEA countries are due to organisms resistant to antimicrobials

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

Removing antimicrobial resistance from the WHO’s ‘pandemic treaty’ will leave humanity vulnerable to future pandemics

If governments are serious about pandemic preparedness, they must support bold measures to conserve the effectiveness of antimicrobials within …

AMR Awareness Week: FAO’s biosecurity protocol can help create healthy farms with less antibiotic use

The three-zone biosecurity initiative by FAO was originally launched in 2013 to contain avian flu outbreaks

AMR Awareness Week: Innovation in antibiotics research and development is urgently needed

There should be a movement to treat AMR as a national issue, pass policies and fund innovation. Such efforts would then have a cascading effect …

AMR Awareness Week: Tackling antimicrobial resistance in agrifood systems through a One Health approach

Adopting a whole-of-society and multi-sectoral approach is essential to address AMR effectively

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

AMR Awareness Week: Subscription-based economic model can help unblock pipeline for new antibiotics

At present, drug development is only profitable if combination of prices and sales volumes is sufficiently high

One Health approach: European Union strengthens action to combat antimicrobial resistance

European Council recommends incentives for innovation and access to antimicrobials along with alternatives  

AMR Awareness Week: Kerala’s AMR committees & literacy campaigns example of participatory antimicrobial stewardship

A hub-and-spoke model of AMR surveillance has been initiated in almost all districts

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 …