Bali, Indonesia | Xinhua | The World Health Organization and the Group of 20 members warned on Wednesday at a meeting in Indonesia’s Bali of a potential “silent pandemic” of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) triggered by overdosage of drugs and antibiotics. This meeting is a side event of the 3rd G20 Health …
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Lack of diagnostic facilities escalates the problem Kampala, Uganda | PATRICIA AKANKWATSA | The problem of antimicrobial resistance in infectious agents has been rising, and there is global concern that in the absence of interventions to reverse this trend, the means to treat infectious diseases will be limited and out …
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Kampala, Uganda | Julius Businge | Uganda is one of the countries in the world that will benefit from a Fund dubbed – Fleming Fund – which is a 265 million pounds that aims to tackle antimicrobial resistance in low and middle income countries. According to experts, antimicrobial resistance occurs when microorganisms …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda is preparing to hold a conference on antimicrobial resistance next week, a week later they will also hold the annual scientific conference. The two come after big international health conferences on Universal health coverage and Oone health happening in the country a month …
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