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Solutions To The AMR ‘Silent Pandemic’ Need More Than Just Lip Service

Antibiotics Innovators Bemoan Lack Of Incentives And Rewards In Face Of Ever-Growing AMR Threat

 
• By Ed Silverman

With new antibiotics a rare commodity, persistently inadequate reimbursement for innovations and worthy but often piecemeal pilots, antimicrobial resistance has quietly risen to become a factor in well over a million deaths annually. Now that COVID-19 is not the all-encompassing threat to health it was until fairly recently, AMR is once again moving towards the center of attention. But properly funded actions and mindset changes are needed.

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Helen Boucher still feels frustrated when thinking about the patient who had congestive heart failure.

The middle-aged man needed a heart transplant, but ran into a serious obstacle. He had undergone knee replacement surgery and developed a persistent infection that was resistant to available antibiotics. Every medicine was tried, but nothing worked

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