Antibiotic Resistance

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Residents queue to receive cholera vaccinations at a clinic in Harare, Zimbabwe, on October 4, 2018.

Zimbabwe Struggles With Drug-Resistant Disease Strains

by Andrew Mambondiyani

Drug-resistant cholera and typhoid are sparking fears in Zimbabwe as cases rise

Governance
As the sun sets, a boy prepares to jump off a rock into the waters of the Osman Sagar Lake near the southern Indian city of Hyderabad May 29, 2011.

Antibiotic Resistance is a Smoldering Crisis

by Kevin Ikuta, Lucien Swetschinski, Mohsen Naghavi, Chieh Han, Katherine Leach-Kemon

More than 1.2 million people across the globe died of antibiotic resistant superbugs in 2019

A hand pump provides access to water in the village of Lal Bux Lund in Pakistan's Sindh province on July 8, 2011, but 1 in 4 health facilities around the world lack basic water services. The picture shows two girls, one pumping, the other washing, and both laughing. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro
Urbanization

Getting WASH into Health Care Facilities: An Urgent Global Health Need

by John Simon, Susan K. Barnett

Will the UN’s prioritization of clean water, sanitation and hand washing in health care facilities finally breed action?

Demonstrators march through the streets of Cape Town to highlight the need for new strategies and medicines to curb the spread of tuberculosis on November 8, 2007. Picture shows a crowd of people wearing red shirts with a woman at center shouting into the camera
Governance

TB: The Challenge of Changing Drug Policies

by Jason Socrates Bardi

Complex lessons in governance seen in rollout of new tuberculosis drug bedaquiline in South Africa, Belarus and Vietnam

Technician doing eye exam during azithromycin mass drug administration training exercise near Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
Aging

Mass Drug Administration of Azithromycin: Promise or Peril?

by Sandra B. Munro

Mass drug administration of azithromycin saves children’s lives—is that enough to justify risk of antibiotic resistance?