WHO /Quinn Mattingly

Fostering international cooperation on antimicrobial resistance

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) presents the global community with a significant challenge, in terms of depth, breadth and complexity. As the threat posed by resistant genes and drug-resistant infections continues to grow, so do calls for strengthened and formal global governance mechanisms to coordinate the response to AMR.

The multifaceted, multi-sector and multi-stakeholder nature of the AMR challenge means any approach used to address AMR on the global stage must be carefully considered.

Impact

One Health

approach

to AMR includes coordination of human, animal, plant, and environmental policies.

Tripartite

formed by

FAO, OIE and WHO promotes the responsible use of antimicrobials in humans, animals and plants.

5

target areas of

country progress, innovation, collaboration, financing and governance are in IACG recommendations.

Urgent action needed to avert antimicrobial resistance crisis

If no action is taken - warns the UN Ad hoc Interagency Coordinating Group on Antimicrobial Resistance – drug-resistant diseases could cause 10 million deaths each year by 2050 and damage to the economy as catastrophic as the 2008-2009 global financial crisis. By 2030, antimicrobial resistance could force up to 24 million people into extreme poverty.

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