While there is a need for international efforts to tackle the threat posed by antimicrobial resistance, how can clinicians, pharma and governments take positive steps to help avert a crisis? SUSAN PEARSON reports.
The threat from antibiotic resistance is no longer a prediction for the future, it is happening right now, worldwide and can affect anyone from any country: this is the verdict of a new World Health Organization (WHO) report on antibiotic resistance.
The report is the first published by the WHO, to tackle the issue. It aims to kick-start improved collaboration in tracking drug resistance globally and better-designed targeted solutions.
Issuing a stark warning, Dr Keiji Fukuda, WHO assistant director-general for Health Security, highlighted the need for urgent action: “Without urgent, coordinated action by many stakeholders, the world is headed for a post-antibiotic era… Unless we take significant actions to prevent infections and also change how we produce, prescribe and use antibiotics...the implications will be devastating.
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