Fight against AMR: UN calls for global cooperation & agreement on pandemic treaty

Multi-sectoral cooperation, technology, innovation, research needed to tackle AMR, says Amina Mohammed

NCDC survey on antibiotic use highlights need for properly monitoring critically important antimicrobials to mitigate AMR

A third of most commonly prescribed antibiotics were third generation cephalosporins, a class of critically important antimicrobials, …

Antimicrobial resistance: Here are some practices that can improve milk quality, cattle health

There is a lack of knowledge and expertise regarding how to limit the use of antibiotics at the farm level without harming cattle health

Antibiotic use in animals, humans can trigger AMR in each other: study establishes links

Reciprocity of antimicrobial consumption and resistance between animals and humans emphasises the need for integrated strategies to stop …

Antibiotic use in food animals can be reduced by improving their welfare

Antibiotics should be reserved to treat animals, not used to promote fast growth or as band aids across the herd to prevent stressed …

New method developed to remove harmful drugs from wastewater

The presence of crucial drugs in wastewater not only pollutes environment but can also harms human health

Antimicrobial resistance: ‘We must understand the phenomenon and how it can be tackled’

We need to remember that lower the chances of infection, lower would be the use of antibiotics / antimicrobials

Antimicrobial resistance: Zimbabwe has created momentum for success, but more work needed

Country's drug resistance index at 66.6% against a benchmark of 25%

Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2021: A pandemic within a pandemic

The use of antibiotics increased phenomenally during the pandemic; more than 70% patients were treated with antibiotics 

Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2021: How vaccines can help reduce India’s AMR burden

The vaccine provides an indirect but significant benefit at scale to preventing the emergence of AMR

Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2021: How rethinking communication can go a long way

People across demographics cannot be targeted as one group while spreading awareness

Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2021: Zoonoses as a driver for antimicrobial resistance

The diseases which are naturally transmitted between humans and animals, are a major driver that can threaten human health by …

Combating AMR: How Kerala reduced antibiotic misuse in animals

Kerala has operationalised AMR protection plan in animal health by conceptualisating a ‘one-health’ response 

AMR, flu pandemic again top WHO’s list of health challenges for 2020

UN body also lists newer challenges related to adolescents, emerging technologies and food among others

Dairy farm wastewater increases presence of antibiotic resistant genes in soil

A new study has found that using wastewater from dairy farms for soil irrigation significantly increased the presence of antibiotic …

Farm waste, a significant source of antimicrobial resistance

Current manure treatment technologies not enough to reduce entry of antibiotics and antibiotic resistant genes into the environment, says a study

India’s antibiotics consumption shot up by 103% since 2000: study

India had the largest increase in antibiotic consumption in low and middle income countries and also surpassed America’s antibiotic …

We are running out of antibiotics, says WHO

Report says antibiotics, which are almost in the pipeline as far as research goes, will fail to combat the growing threat of AMR

WHO urges action against antibiotic resistance

Experts warn that without effective medicines, infections such as hospital-acquired ventilator-associated pneumonias, urinary tract infections …

Tackling AMR: For LMICs, prevention is the best solution, say experts at CSE's international workshop

Recommendations from workshop to inform High-Level Meeting on AMR scheduled at UN General Assembly later this year

New class of antibiotics that can kill drug-resistant bacteria finally on the horizon?

Zosurabalpin was found to have potent, selective activity against Acinetobacter strains, including drug-resistant strains of Carbapenem-resistant …

AMR Awareness Week: Natural livestock farming effective bottom-up approach to reduce antibiotic use in dairy sector

Crisis with AMR obliges dairy sector to look beyond maximising cattle productivity and focus on both milk quantity, quality

AMR Awareness Week: Way forward for pharma companies to ensure antibiotics manufacturing doesn’t drive resistance

The risk of AMR posed by the release of antibiotic manufacturing waste can be prevented  

World faces a triple health jeopardy as drug pipeline for new antibiotics dries up

It is time to look at antibiotics as global public good

How bees can monitor pollution for us — everything from toxic metals to antimicrobial resistance

Honey bees can reveal patterns of contamination that might otherwise go unnoticed.