By Reneta Ilieva, Bulgarian Association for Patients’ Rights Defence For several months, Bulgarian authorities have been advising practitioners not to prescribe antibiotics for COVID-19, but no significant progress has been achieved in terms of fighting antibiotic...
For years now, experts have been warning about a pandemic quietly spreading across the globe due to misuse and overuse of antimicrobials. For years, EPHA, the AMR Stakeholder Network, and the MEP Interest Group on AMR have been working to raise awareness on the threat...
The environment is an important factor in the development, transmission, and spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) to humans, animals, and plants. In 2017, the UN Environment Programme recognised increasing AMR linked to the discharge of drugs and particular...
Guest article by Calum MacKichan & Sarah de Maaker – Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME) The problem of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is faced by doctors across Europe on a daily basis who are unable to successfully treat patients who have...
By Kirsty Douglas – Policy Assistant for Global Public Health Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an ongoing public health crisis, with a recent report associating bacterial AMR with 4.95 deaths per year worldwide, including 1.27 million attributable deaths. This is a...