Partnering with low- and middle-income countries to co-develop sustainable antimicrobial resistance solutions

Antimicrobial resistance (the evolutionary ability of bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites to survive against the antimicrobials used to kill them) is a growing global health crisis, an ‘invisible pandemic’ that spreads through health systems, farms, the environment, communities and rivers the world over. But the complexity of the issue, the challenge of clearly communicating it, and the need for coordinated local, national and global efforts has left many actors unable to prioritise resources to fight it. As a result, efforts to mitigate AMR are dangerously siloed and ultimately dwarfed by the scale of the problem.