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Neonatal sepsis: Alarming number of newborns losing their lives

Health, News

A global study has found that neonatal sepsis in newborns – caused by antibiotic resistance – is a rising cause of death. The study, conducted by the Global Antibiotic Research & Development Partnership (GARDP), examined just over 3,000 babies from…

LililtaG
April 29, 2022

Superbugs baffle many South Africans

Health, Health Systems

Preventing antibiotic resistance puzzles many at a time where momentum is growing to address this growing public health threat.

Amy Green
November 19, 2016

Global plan to fight superbugs

Health Systems

Pneumonia, gonorrhoea and urinary tract infections that no longer respond to antibiotics are fast becoming a reality worldwide.

kerrycullinan
September 26, 2016

Set limit on antibiotic use, say experts

Health Systems

Global health experts want world leaders to set country-level limits on the use of antibiotics to combat a looming crisis of drug-resistant “superbugs.”

kerrycullinan
August 18, 2016

Rise of killer superbugs continues

Health Systems

Factory farming and excessive pill-popping is driving the development of ‘superbugs’ able to evade our best medicines, making death from common infections possible once again. Now resistance to one of the very last effective antibiotics has been discovered.

kerrycullinan
November 23, 2015

Framework: Antimicrobial Resistance National Strategy Framework 2014-2024

Health

The 24-page document provides a structure for managing antimicrobial resistance, limiting drug-resistant infections and improving patient outcomes.

healthe
September 24, 2015

Report: The State of the World’s Antibiotics (2015)

Health

Produced by the Centre for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy, the 84-page report argues increasing income and demand for animal protein and the use of antibiotics within agriculture are fueling antibiotic resistance globally.

healthe
September 17, 2015

World on brink of post-antibiotic era – WHO

Health, News

Resistance to common antibiotic medicine has been recorded in every region of the world, according to a report released yesterday by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

kerrycullinan
May 1, 2014

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