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Antimicrobial resistance
Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites change over time and no longer respond to medicines making infections harder to treat and increasing the risk of disease spread, severe illness and death.
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Antimicrobial resistance - World Health Organization (WHO)
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) threatens the effective prevention and treatment of an ever-increasing range of infections caused by bacteria, parasites, viruses and fungi. AMR occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites change over time and no longer respond to medicines making infections harder to treat and increasing the risk of disease spread, severe illness and death. As a result ...
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Antimicrobial resistance
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) occurs when microorganisms no longer respond to antimicrobial medicines. There are different types of antimicrobials, which work against different types of microorganisms, such as antibacterials or antibiotics against bacteria, antivirals against viruses, antiparasitics against parasites, and antifungals against ...
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World AMR Awareness Week 2024 - World Health Organization (WHO)
The World AMR Awareness Week (WAAW) is a global campaign to raise awareness and understanding of AMR and promote best practices among One Health stakeholders to reduce the emergence and spread of drug-resistant infections. WAAW is celebrated from 18-24 November every year. The theme for the World AMR Awareness Week (WAAW) 2024 is “Educate ...
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AMR is invisible. I am not - World Health Organization (WHO)
Antimicrobial resistance is invisible, but its victims are not. 12 survivors and advocates share their stories, urging awareness and action to stop AMR in its tracks.
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Global leaders set first targets to control antimicrobial resistance crisis
World leaders agreed on the first global targets to control the antimicrobial resistance (AMR) crisis at the second High-level Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance of the United Nations General Assembly. Countries committed to reducing the number of deaths globally associated with bacterial AMR by 10% by 2030 against the 2019 baseline of 4.95 million deaths. AMR is the third leading cause of ...
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Antimicrobial Resistance - World Health Organization (WHO)
Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites change over time and no longer respond to medicines making infections harder to treat and increasing the risk of disease spread, severe illness and death. Misuse and overuse of antimicrobials are the main drivers in the development of drug-resistant pathogens.
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AMR Resource Pack 2025 - World Health Organization (WHO)
 The 2025 AMR Resource Pack provides useful resources for the development and implementation of national action plans (NAPs) on AMR. In this version, the documents are now listed following the core package of 13 AMR interventions of the "People-centred approach to addressing antimicrobial resistance in human health: WHO core package of interventions to support national action plans". The ...
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World AMR Awareness Week 2025 urges action to turn political ...
As World AMR Awareness Week approaches (18 to 24 November 2025), the World Health Organization (WHO) and partners urge all countries to turn political commitments into life-saving interventions. This year’s theme, “Act Now: Protect Our Present, Secure Our Future”, builds on momentum from the 2024 UN High-Level Meeting on AMR and the adoption of its political declaration. It calls for ...
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Global ministers and partners pledge action with new Jeddah Commitments ...
The Quadripartite organizations – the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) – warmly welcomed the adoption of the Jeddah Commitments issued at the 4th Global High-Level Ministerial Conference on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR). The ...