Overview

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is projected to trigger substantial morbidity and mortality
within the World Health Organization (WHO) Western Pacific Region over the subsequent decade, at
vital financial price. By endangering folks’s well being, AMR poses a risk to well being
safety and has implications for general improvement, significantly in Member States that
are extra susceptible to the impacts of AMR.

The examine, carried out by the WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology
and Control at The University of Hong Kong, is the primary to quantify the well being and financial
impacts of AMR for seven precedence micro organism within the Western Pacific Region, in addition to mannequin
the long run unfold and value implications of AMR from 2020 to 2030. In the context of this
examine, AMR refers to antibiotic resistance, that’s resistance to medicines which deal with
bacterial infections.