[Re: https://www.hifa.org/dgroups-rss/antimicrobial-resistance-amr ]
Thank you Massimo for sharing this concerning report.
One reads a lot on anti-microbial resistance, but it is one of the issues that generates a lot of discussion, but it seems little actual action to solve it, globally and within countries.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron in 2014 raised this same issue of global anti microbial resistance at G7 level. He said, ‘Around 25,000 people already die each year from infections resistant to antibiotic drugs in Europe alone and the lack of new drugs which are capable of fighting bacteria has been described by the World Health Organization as one of the most significant global risks facing modern medicine.’ He ‘set out a plan forencouraging and accelerating the discovery and development of new generationsof antibiotics, and other measures including, ‘Increasing international cooperation and support for action by the international community, including much closer working with low and middle income countries on this issue.’ (https://www.gov.uk/government/news/prime-minister-warns-of-global-threat...).
It is a global tragedy that according to the TEA-Kenya article, which you shared, "more than 659,000 children in Africa died in 2022 frominfections linked to AMR". As always Africa bears the brunt!!!
Whatever happened to the PM David Cameron’s big plan? Was there ever a global North-South cooperation on this issue that affects the whole world? What are LLMICs doing about this escalating preventable and avoidable health catastrophe?
Joseph Ana.
HIFA profile: Joseph Ana is the Lead Senior Fellow/Medical Consultant at the Centre for Clinical Governance Research and Patient Safety in Calabar, Nigeria, established by HRI Global (former HRIWA). He is a member of the World Health Organisation’s Technical Advisory Group on Integrated Care in primary, emergency, operative, and critical care (TAG-IC2). As the Cross River State Commissioner for Health, he led the introduction of the Homegrown Quality Tool, the 12-Pillar Clinical Governance Programme, in Nigeria (2004-2008). For sustainability, he established the Department of Clinical Governance, Servicom & e-health in the Cross River State Ministry of Health, Nigeria. His main interest is in whole health sector and system strengthening in Lower, Low and Middle Income Countries (LLMICs). He has written six books on the 12-Pillar Clinical Governance programme, suitable for LLMICs, including the TOOLS for Implementation. He served as Chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association’s Standing Committee on Clinical Governance (2012-2022), and he won the Nigeria Medical Association’s Award of Excellence on three consecutive occasions for the innovation. He served as Chairman, Quality & Performance, of the Technical Working Group for the implementation of the Nigeria Health Act 2014. He is member, National Tertiary Health Institutions Standards Committee of the Federal Ministry of Health. He is the pioneer Secretary General/Trustee-Director of the NMF (Nigerian Medical Forum) which took the BMJ to West Africa in 1995. Joseph is a member of the HIFA Steering Group and the HIFA working group on Community Health Workers. (http://www.hifa.org/support/members/joseph-0 http://www.hifa.org/people/steering-group). jneana AT yahoo.co.uk