We need stronger international partnerships and coalitions so that the threat of AMR [antimicrobial resistance] is fully recognised and the responsibility for reducing it is shared.
But we can’t really tackle it unless we get coordinated, international action, which is why we’re working in partnership to push it up the global political agenda. [emphasis added]
Dame Sally says the threat is such that it should be added to the Government’s National Risk Register of Civil Emergencies. I think she’s right. So does the World Health Organisation, the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. Their repeated warnings that antimicrobial resistance is one of the greatest threats to human health have culminated in the ''10x20 challenge’’ to world governments: to find 10 new antibiotics by 2020.
Discussions focused on the main objectives of the new UK cross-government Antimicrobial Resistance Strategy, to be published in the summer, which include: