Driving action on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in 2024 - Policy briefing

To understand the opportunities untreatable and medical procedures, such as To deliver a more ambitious and globally coherent approach to tackling AMR at the for a course correction in the response to AMR surgeries or chemotherapy, becoming too risky. [...] and action on AMR, to assess and monitor Wellcome’s own insights from our engagement as a With the stakes this high, global leaders must evidence on drug-resistant infections, significant funder in the AMR field, has helped shape use the UN General Assembly (UNGA) High Level contribute to the development of granular our conclusions and proposals in this paper, and Meeting (HLM) on AMR in September. [...] This past 15 years but, overall, the global response should also provide the forum for countries remains too weak and fragmented to match the to review and translate the findings of the escalating challenge of AMR. [...] The global response to HIV/AIDS, for to synthesise the evidence available on AMR at a global level, preventing example, was transformed in the early 2000s by focused commitments made via policymakers from properly understanding the progress of the AMR pandemic or the UN, with structured, target-driven follow-up. [...] This should Recommendation 2 1 be the beginning of a pathway to develop a wider The HLM political declaration should initiate Set a bold, unifying goal to reduce the global burden of AMR and set of robust global targets for progress on AMR.