Ceftriaxone-Resistant Gonorrhea - China, 2022
This report describes increases in the prevalence of antibiotic-resistant strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in China. (Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - March 28, 2024 Category: American Health Tags: Antibiotic and Antimicrobial Resistance Gonorrhea MMWR Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report Source Type: news

World Tuberculosis Day 2024: many more TB cases could be prevented
24 March 2024, Cairo, Egypt – Tuberculosis (TB) is still one of the world’s deadliest diseases, although it is both preventable and curable. Today, on World Tuberculosis Day, WHO and partners worldwide unite to renew the commitment to end the global TB pandemic. Every year, 10 million people globally fall ill with TB. An infectious disease that mainly affects the lungs but can attack any part of the body. Despite being preventable and curable, TB kills 1.5 million people each year – making it the world’s top infectious killer. TB is also the leading cause of death among people living with HIV and a major cont...
Source: WHO EMRO News - March 23, 2024 Category: Middle East Health Source Type: news

Africans Can Solve the Disease that Haunts Us — Here’s How
It is critical that African scientists tackle African problems, and the reasons extend beyond access. Credit: Jeffrey Moyo/IPS. By Khisi MdluliBOSTON, US, Mar 15 2024 (IPS) I was born in Brakpan, Johannesburg, South Africa, and grew up in eSwatini (known then as Swaziland). People in these two countries share one predominant fear: unemployment. Other worries in these countries and others in the region include unwanted pregnancies, low income and food safety. The diseases that are dreaded the most are cancer and diabetes. Feared infectious diseases include HIV-AIDS, COVID and cholera. Even though South Africa and eSwatini a...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Khisi Mdluli Tags: Africa Development & Aid Headlines Health Poverty & SDGs Source Type: news

A treaty to prepare the world for the next pandemic hangs in the balance
“Me first”—that’s how Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of the World Health Organization (WHO), described the wealthy world’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic when he kicked off negotiations for a global “pandemic treaty” in December 2021. Even before vaccines had proved safe and effective, rich countries had purchased enough doses to cover their entire population several times, whereas lower and middle-income countries had little or no vaccine. The pandemic treaty would address that searing inequity, Tedros vowed, along with many other problems identified during the COVID-19 pandemic, leaving the world bette...
Source: ScienceNOW - March 15, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news

Curbing Antibiotic Use Works Curbing Antibiotic Use Works
European agencies published evidence that reducing antibiotic use in humans and food-producing animals leads to a decline in antimicrobial resistance.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Pharmacist Headlines)
Source: Medscape Pharmacist Headlines - February 23, 2024 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Tags: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news

Bristol Veterinary School celebrates 75 years of educating veterinary students and advancing animal health and wellbeing
This year – 2024 – the University of Bristol's Veterinary School is celebrating 75 years of educating veterinary students and advancing veterinary science. From improving livestock welfare to tackling food security and antimicrobial resistance, using artificial intelligence to detect disease and working to conserve highly threatened mammals, Bristol Veterinary School has helped to advance veterinary medicine, animal welfare and health around the world. (Source: University of Bristol news)
Source: University of Bristol news - February 21, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Health, International, Research; Faculty of Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Bristol Veterinary School; Press Release Source Type: news

University of Southern California Researchers Develop Vaccine That Boosts Immunity and Helps Patients Avoid Deadly Infections While in Hospitals
New vaccine could give clinical laboratories and antimicrobial stewardship programs the tool they need to dramatically reduce hospital-acquired infections Healthcare providers and clinical laboratories continue to struggle against hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) and ever-evolving antimicrobial resistant (AMR) bacteria. But now, the University of Southern California (USC) has developed and patented an experimental vaccine that has been […] The post University of Southern California Researchers Develop Vaccine That Boosts Immunity and Helps Patients Avoid Deadly Infections While in Hospitals appeared first on Dark ...
Source: Dark Daily - February 16, 2024 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Jillia Schlingman Tags: Laboratory Instruments & Laboratory Equipment Laboratory News Laboratory Pathology Laboratory Resources Laboratory Testing aluminum hydroxide AMR anatomic pathology antimicrobial resistance Brad Spellberg MD Brian Luna PhD centers fo Source Type: news

Orchid Pharma's new antibiotic 'Exblifeb' gets European Medicines Agency approval
The Chennai-based firm said Exblifeb incorporates Enmetazobactam, "the first completely invented-in-India Beta Lactamase inhibitor" and it is designed to address the global challenge of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Exblifeb' demonstrates remarkable efficacy in treating complicated urinary tract infections (UTI), pneumonia, and bacteremia caused by extended spectrum beta-lactamase producing pathogens, Orchid Pharma said in a regulatory filing. (Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News)
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - January 30, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

Young health professionals combat antimicrobial resistance
23 January 2024 – The WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region has some of the highest and fastest-growing rates of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) globally, owing to widespread antibiotic misuse and overuse. Nearly 1.3 million people are already dying as a direct result of AMR worldwide. High rates of drug resistance undermine many health efforts and make health care more complex, expensive and risky. The AMR unit in the WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean is currently strengthening the AMR response through multiple intersectional strategies. These focus on key stakeholders identified at various levels and priorit...
Source: WHO EMRO News - January 23, 2024 Category: Middle East Health Source Type: news

Failure of some prescription drugs could kill 10 million annually by 2050, Davos leaders warn, calling the issue a ‘silent pandemic’
As many as 10 million people a year could die by 2050 due to the failure of prescription drugs, as viruses, bacteria, and other pathogens evolve to evade them, and science fails to keep up. That was the assertion of experts at the World Economic Forum’s session on antimicrobial resistance, held…#worldeconomicforums #davos #switzerland #shyambishen #amr #mdr #xdr #bishen #helenclark #newzealand (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 17, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Turmeric Tackles Antimicrobial Resistance
An active ingredient in turmeric interacts with light to resensitize pathogens to antibiotics. (Source: The Scientist)
Source: The Scientist - January 1, 2024 Category: Science Tags: Magazine Issue Source Type: news

Zimbabwe: New Module Added to Nursing Curriculum
[The Herald] With support from the World Health Organisation, its partners and the UK's Fleming Fund, the Ministry of Health and Child Care has introduced an antimicrobial resistance (AMR) module in the nursing school curriculum for registered general nurses, primary care nurses, and midwifery, beginning next year. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 27, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine Southern Africa Zimbabwe Source Type: news

COP28: One Health Steps Delight Many, Others Show Cautious Optimism
A mask seller in an Indian food market in Kerala during a recent zoonotic disease outbreak. COP28 is the first climate negotiation where the majority of the countries have agreed to declare their commitment to prevent the worsening health impacts of climate change. Credit: Stella Paul/IPSBy Stella PaulDUBAI, Dec 9 2023 (IPS) One Health activist, Kelly Dent, has been attending UNFCCC COPs since 2009, when it was held in Copenhagen. From there, it has been a 15-year-long journey to Dubai, but Dent is finally having a reason to feel good: for the first time, the majority of the countries have come together to formally declare...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - December 9, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Stella Paul Tags: Climate Action Climate Change COP28 Development & Aid Environment Featured Global Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Report xIPS UN Bureau Source Type: news

Notes from the Field: Responding to the Wartime Spread of Antimicrobial-Resistant Organisms - Ukraine, 2022
This report describes an international collaboration among partners to address increased antimicrobial resistance in Ukraine. (Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - December 7, 2023 Category: American Health Tags: Global Health MMWR Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report Source Type: news

Uganda: Antibiotic Resistance Is a Silent Epidemic
[Independent (Kampala)] Interview -- Each year antimicrobial resistance - the ability of microbes to survive agents designed to kill them - claims more lives than malaria and HIV/Aids combined. Africa bears the brunt of this development, which thrives on inequality and poverty. Nadine Dreyer asked Tom Nyirenda, a research scientist with over 27 years' experience in infectious diseases, what health organisations on the continent are doing to fight this threat to medical progress. Nyirenda is Extraordinary Senior Lecture in the Department of (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 7, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: East Africa Health and Medicine Uganda Source Type: news