H.E. Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley,

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization,

Dr Monique Eloit, Director-General, World Organisation for Animal Health.

My due to Prime Minister Mottley for internet hosting the seventh Meeting of the Global Leaders Group on Antimicrobial Resistance, or AMR.

To defend human, animal, planetary and financial well being, we should handle AMR head on by way of a One Health method. I commend the group for progressing on its motion plan to fight AMR. Now, as we glance down the highway to the UN General Assembly 2024 High-level assembly on AMR, there are three key areas during which we are able to speed up motion.

One, making the financial case for preventing AMR.

The many impacts of AMR harm the worldwide financial system. The Global South is hit hardest. If determination makers perceive the prices, they are often motivated to behave. Making this financial case is a vital workstream of the Quadripartite and different key companions.

Two, pushing R&D on prevention.

While R&D is required to advance the antibiotics pipeline, prevention is vital. Stronger engagement with business and particular regulatory modifications can increase R&D on maintaining antimicrobials efficient, fairly than simply racing to remain forward of resistance with new medication.

Three, rising funding.

More coordinated motion wants elevated and predictable funding. The Bridgetown Initiative to reform the worldwide growth monetary structure could make a optimistic distinction to creating nations. Opportunities are being explored by way of the GEF and the Pandemic Fund. Other methods to mobilize funding embody realigning incentives, public-private collaboration and eliminating dangerous subsidies in agriculture.

Friends,

AMR is a rising menace, and an integral a part of the triple planetary disaster: the disaster of local weather change, the disaster of nature and biodiversity loss, and the disaster of air pollution and waste. But if we push onerous in these three areas, we are able to defend human, animal, planetary and financial well being.