Thread by @WHO

🆕The world is still failing to develop desperately needed antibacterial treatments, despite growing awareness of the urgent threat of #AntibioticResistance: WHO report
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None of the 43 antibiotics that are currently in clinical development sufficiently address the problem of drug resistance in the world’s most dangerous bacteria.
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Almost all the new antibiotics that have been brought to market in recent decades are variations of antibiotic drugs classes that had been discovered by the 1980s.
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The impact of antimicrobial resistance is most severe in resource-constrained settings and among vulnerable groups such as newborns and young children.
Bacterial pneumonia and bloodstream infections are among the major causes of childhood mortality under the age of 5.

Approximately 30% of neoborns with sepsis die due to bacterial infections resistant to multiple first-line antibiotics.

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We need a global sustained effort including mechanisms for pooled funding and new & additional investments to meet the magnitude of the antimicrobial threat bit.ly/3mPCl5h