Call for actionable steps in response tothe rising threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR)

The Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Multi-Stakeholder Partnership Platform Action Group urges the United Nations to use the 2024 United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting on AMR to accelerate progress on addressing AMR using a One Health approach. The group calls for actionable steps to ensure a healthier, more sustainable, and resilient future, with antimicrobials preserved as critical lifesaving medicines equally accessible to everyone. The organizations advocate for UN Member States to include the outcome of their discussion in the negotiations on the 2024 Declaration on AMR. These include enhancing One Health collaboration, accelerating the implementation of AMR National Action Plans, strengthening capacity for AMR efforts, strengthening health systems through comprehensive prevention strategies, leveraging preventive measures like vaccination, strengthening sector-specific AMR and antimicrobial use surveillance, transforming agrifood systems, ensuring universal, equitable, affordable, and sustainable access to quality essential medicines, vaccines, and diagnostics, encouraging high-income countries and other stakeholders to commit to sustainable antimicrobial research and development, and preventing and addressing the drivers, sources, and challenges of the environmental dimensions of AMR.