O'Neill Warns Pharma Risks Backlash If Doesn't Engage In World AMR Pact

The globalized drugs industry needs to play ball and help find a solution to antimicrobial resistance or risk getting blamed for its failure and the resulting world health crisis.

Jim O'Neill says 2017 will be crucial for determining whether momentum built by his AMR Review on tackling antimicrobial resistance can be maintained and ultimately expanded into a global project – and that it is in the international pharma sector's interests to ensure that it does.

Much has happened on the geopolitical scene since the last of O’Neill’s AMR reviews was issued

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