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With Antimicrobial Resistance, Women and Children Face Highest Risks

With Antimicrobial Resistance, Women and Children Face Highest Risks

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One in five deaths from antimicrobial resistance involved a child younger than 5, and women face increased vulnerability

Vanishing Workforce: An Antimicrobial Resistance Threat

Vanishing Workforce: An Antimicrobial Resistance Threat

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Both public and private sectors should invest in antimicrobial research to attract and retain the best scientists

The United Nations Must Ensure Sustainable Access to Effective Antibiotics

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A collapse in the effectiveness of antibiotics could come without warning and imperil entire health systems

The United Nations Must Ensure Sustainable Access to Effective Antibiotics

Centering Indigenous Groups in Canada's Antimicrobial Resistance Plan

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Canada's plan to combat antimicrobial resistance needs to address the high burden in Indigenous populations

Centering Indigenous Groups in Canada's Antimicrobial Resistance Plan

Nurses Champion Fight Against Antimicrobial Resistance

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With expertise in patient care, nurses are well positioned to combat antimicrobial resistance if given the correct tools

Nurses Champion Fight Against Antimicrobial Resistance

China's Role in Global Antimicrobial Resistance

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How the world's largest producer of antibiotics can address drug resistance

China's Role in Global Antimicrobial Resistance

Zimbabwe Struggles With Drug-Resistant Disease Strains

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Drug-resistant cholera and typhoid are sparking fears in Zimbabwe as cases rise

Zimbabwe Struggles With Drug-Resistant Disease Strains

Antibiotic Resistance is a Smoldering Crisis

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More than 1.2 million people across the globe died of antibiotic resistant superbugs in 2019

Antibiotic Resistance is a Smoldering Crisis

Getting WASH into Health Care Facilities: An Urgent Global Health Need

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Will the UN's prioritization of clean water, sanitation and hand washing in health care facilities finally breed action?

A hand pump provides access to water in the village of Lal Bux Lund in Pakistan's Sindh province on July 8, 2011, but 1 in 4 health facilities around the world lack basic water services. The picture shows two girls, one pumping, the other washing, and both laughing. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro

Mass Drug Administration of Azithromycin: Promise or Peril?

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Mass drug administration of azithromycin saves children's lives—is that enough to justify risk of antibiotic resistance?

Technician doing eye exam during azithromycin mass drug administration training exercise near Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

TB: The Challenge of Changing Drug Policies

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Complex lessons in governance seen in rollout of new tuberculosis drug bedaquiline in South Africa, Belarus and Vietnam

Demonstrators march through the streets of Cape Town to highlight the need for new strategies and medicines to curb the spread of tuberculosis on November 8, 2007. Picture shows a crowd of people wearing red shirts with a woman at center shouting into the camera