New global targets proposed to reduce AMR-linked deaths and improve access to essential antibiotics

Staphylococcus aureus – Antibiotics Test plate. Credit: CDC Access to effective antibiotics is essential to all health systems in the world. Antibiotics prolong lives, reduce disabilities, limit health care costs and enable other life-saving medical interventions such as surgery. However, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) threatens this backbone of modern medicine and is already leading to deaths and disease which would have once been prevented. Speaking at the World Health Assembly on May 28, 2024, leading scientists who authored the new Lancet series—including researchers at St George’s, University of London—are calling for Read More