- There is a demand for coordinating global response on growing resistance among pathogens to antibiotics and other drugs to address climate change.
- The world faces a future in which a treatable simple infections become deadly diseases without an international commitment to tackle them.
- Establishing a powerful global organisation akin to Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to address the same isrequired.
- Resistance to antibiotics and antimicrobial drugs is spreading.Treatment is now reliant on just one or two drugs.
- The growing threat of antimicrobial resistance is because it is a natural process exacerbated by human activity with actions of one country threatening to have global ramifications.
- This threat is caused by the overuse and misuse of antimicrobial drugs.
- The proposed organisation should work closely with national governments and international agencies:
- To set strict evidence-based targets, to stem the loss of drug potency and speed the development of new therapies.
- Identifying key knowledge gaps,assessing viable short- and long-term solutions.
- Setting out road maps for sustainable control of disease-causing microbes.
- Support studies to investigate dosing regimes that stall resistance
- Coordinate incentives for developing new types of antimicrobial and set targets for prescriptions and animal use.
- Treatment for cancer and diabetes,organ transplants, would be impossible in a world without antibiotics.
- Industrial agriculture will suffer owing to the increased use of antibiotics in animals as growth promoters.
- WHO has missed opportunities to provide leadership, and very little progress has been made thus far.
Exams Perspective:
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
- Antibiotic Resistance
- Carbapenems
- WHO