Today is the second day of ‘World Antimicrobial Awareness Week’ and Moxafrica is publishing a series of blogs posts.
Antimicrobial Medicine Resistance is unquestionably a growing problem and indeed was endorsed as such by the World Health Organization (WHO) at the Sixty-Eighth World Health Assembly in May 2015. It's also no coincidence that the year before that, in 2014, the then UK prime minister David Cameron had commissioned a review regarding what he was being advised was a worrying global phenomenon. “If we fail to act,” he warned at the time, “we are looking at an almost unthinkable scenario where antibiotics no longer work and we are cast back into the dark ages of medicine.” His doom-laden warnings were undoubtedly being stoked by his then Chief Medical Officer, Sally Davies, who (since leaving office in 2019) has become the UK’s official ‘special envoy on AMR’.

https://www.moxafrica.org/single-post/world-antimicrobial-awareness-week-november-18-26-day-2-the-nature-of-the-threat-of-amr
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