Global Health Experts Warn of Rising Antimicrobial Resistance
Doctors and researchers urge responsible antibiotic use as drug-resistant infections continue to pose a growing public health challenge worldwide.
Geneva, June 30: Global health experts have renewed calls for stronger action against antimicrobial resistance (AMR), warning that the growing spread of drug resistant bacteria threatens to undermine decades of medical progress.
Health professionals emphasized that the misuse and overuse of antibiotics in both human healthcare and agriculture remain major drivers of antimicrobial resistance. Experts urged governments to strengthen antibiotic stewardship programmes, improve infection prevention and expand laboratory surveillance to detect resistant pathogens more effectively.
The World Health Organization and public health researchers have highlighted AMR as one of the world’s most pressing health threats, with resistant infections making routine treatments, surgeries and cancer therapies increasingly difficult. They stressed that coordinated international action, public awareness and continued investment in research for new antibiotics are essential to address the escalating challenge.
