The State of the World’s Antibiotics 2015, a report released by the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy (CDDEP) and the Global Antibiotic Resistance Partnership has revealed that antibiotic resistance is getting worse globally.
Ramanan Laxminarayan, a co-author of the report and CDDEP’s founder said “For the first time, we have data on low- and middle-income countries, where antibiotic resistance is a serious problem but rarely the focus of policy solutions.
“We hope this report, together with the Resistance Map online tool, will help empower these countries to understand the burden of antibiotic resistance in their region and then take coordinated, research-backed action to limit it.
“We need to focus 80 per cent of our global resources on stewardship and no more than 20 percent on drug development. No matter how many new drugs come out, if we continue to misuse them, they might as well have never been discovered.”
The report, titled The State of The World’s Antibiotics 2015, aggregated data from sources that have never been included before: public surveillance programs and private laboratory networks from most regions of the world.
Laxminarayan added that “There’s a long way to go, a lot of work to be done, but if we lose antibiotics, there really isn’t very much else.”