Date
29 September 2023
When the drugs don’t work: can we do anything about antimicrobial resistance?
Sarah Johnson, writing for the Guardian, looks at the global threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Using the tragic case study of a child in Nigeria to illustrate the issue, the article quotes forecasts that AMR could kill 4.1 million people in Africa by 2050.
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Sarah spoke to Marijn Verhoef, the Foundation's Director of Operations and Research, about lack of access to the right medicine as a major driver of AMR, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.
"In sub-Saharan Africa, in most regions, either patients have no access to medicine at all or access to suboptimal treatments - either antibiotics for a different type of infection, falsified medicines or antibiotics reserved for treating the most difficult infections.''
Read the Foundation's report on lack of access as a driver of AMR.