AMR

Welcome to the global open-access tripartite antimicrobial resistance database. This database provides access for the first time to baseline information on the status of countries’ regarding the implementation of the global action plan and actions to address antimicrobial resistance across all sectors.

Feed safety and antimicrobial resistance get central stage at the yearly, long-established get together of feed regulators and industry representatives from around the world. A record number of participants from 35 different countries, joined the 10th International Feed Regulators Meeting (IFRM) in Atlanta, USA and addressed together some of the priorities of the sector; namely, feed safety risk management and strategies to minimize antimicrobial resistance.

FAO’s Thirtyninth Conference (in June, 2015) adopted Resolution 4/2015 on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) which recognized that it poses an increasingly serious threat to public health and sustainable food production, and that an effective response should involve all sectors of government and society

New advice on which antibiotics to use for common infections and which to preserve for the most serious circumstances is among the additions to the WHO Model list of essential medicines for 2017. Other additions include medicines for HIV, hepatitis C, tuberculosis and leukaemia.

WHO today published its first ever list of antibiotic-resistant “priority pathogens” – a catalogue of 12 families of bacteria that pose the greatest threat to human health.

Data from 77 countries show that antibiotic resistance is making gonorrhoea – a common sexually-transmitted infection – much harder, and sometimes impossible, to treat.

WHO reaffirms the critical need for research and development (R&D) of new antibiotics to tackle the threat of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB).