Antibiotic Resistance

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Urbanization
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

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?

Governance
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

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?