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Antimicrobial Resistance and Women: The Time to Act Is Now

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1 week ago

+ Flipbook text1: Why is AMR a dangerous public health crisis? When you take medication for an infection, sometimes whatever is making you sick has been exposed to the medication enough that it has found a way to survive the drug. That process is antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Some parasites, viruses, bacteria and fungi are so resistant to the medications that treat them that there are no treatments that work to stop the infection. There are only 90 antibiotics in clinical development — and just 5 of them are effective against the highest risk bacteria. With time, infections will beco...