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October 28, 2010
By Mario Raviglione, Director, Stop TB, WHO
In less than six months, WHO will issue a clear call for action to halt the spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). WHO has adopted Combating Antimicrobial Resistance as the theme for World Health Day 2011, held annually on 7 April. World Health Day...
August 25, 2010
Since most readers of this newsletter are dedicated advocates of a stronger global response to drug resistance, you are well aware that efforts to curb resistance thus far have fallen woefully short. Across the spectrum – from R&D to supply chain, to patient adherence to drug resistance surv...
January 15, 2010
The increased availability of life-saving medicines worldwide is having a serious unintended side-effect: a wide array of diseases -- from malaria, TB and HIV/AIDS to pneumonia and acute diarrhea -- is becoming resistant to the drugs we rely on to overcome them. To address this critical challenge, ...
December 16, 2009
The DRWG’s consultation draft report proposes eight recommendations for global action on drug resistance. We will continue refining these recommendations so that the final report prioritizes the most effective and feasible actions for global organizations to take against drug resistance. To do th...
November 20, 2009
By Robert J. Guidos, JD, Vice President, Public Policy and Government Relations
Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)
Finally, there is some good news to report on the global antimicrobial resistance policy front. Earlier this month, at a United States (U.S.) and European Union (EU) sum...
July 24, 2009
by DRWG members Andrew Ramsay and Emma Back
The work of the CGD Drug Resistance Working Group has been focused on some of the major diseases of poverty – such as TB, malaria, pneumonia and cholera – that impact so disastrously upon the human and economic development of poorer countries. In its ...
June 19, 2009
By Kammerle Schneider & Laurie Garrett, Council on Foreign Relations
The same commercial animal farms that provided the breeding grounds for the novel H1N1 A virus that caused the current “Swine Flu” pandemic are home to another dangerous threat to human health: antibiotic resistance.
In the Unite...
May 21, 2009
By Thomas F. O'Brien and John M. Stelling, WHONET
WHONET is based in the Department of Medicine and World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. We have been working for three deca...
April 20, 2009
Where AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria headline the health news, antibiotic resistance doesn’t make it above the fold. In fact, antibiotic resistance is a non-issue in most low- and middle-income countries. This audience hardly needs convincing, though, that antibiotic resistance is a serious proble...
March 16, 2009
By WHO’s World Alliance for Patient Safety
In 2008, the World Alliance for Patient Safety, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) patient safety programme, announced its 3rd Global Patient Safety Challenge: Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance. The work will build upon the previous work of WHO, particu...