drug resistance Stories

A new WHO report finds rising malaria drug and insecticide resistance, 282 million cases and 610,000 deaths in 2024, even as vaccines and new tools av...

The WHO’s latest annual update shows impressive progress since 2000: intervention has saved an estimated 14 million lives worldwide over the last quar...

Antimicrobial resistance spreads because bacteria and fungi evolve to survive medicines, and misuse helps them adapt faster.

The study, the largest of its kind conducted in Africa, analysed more than 187,000 test results from 205 laboratories between 2016 and 2019 in 14 coun...

According to a 2019 survey by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, antimicrobial resistance was responsible for approximately 8,500 deaths...