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Antibiotics have saved countless lives, but overuse and misuse are leading to the rise of “superbugs”, a bacteria resistant to the most powerful medications. What dangers do they pose? How can we prevent these from spreading? Here’s what you need to know.

Everyone knows the power of antibiotics, and most of us know the risks if we don’t use them properly. But nobody knows how deadly antimicrobial resistance really is.

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks about the urgent need to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which is undermining health care globally, and the importance of the World AMR Awareness Week.

As part of the global effort to prevent such antimicrobial resistance, the UN World Health Organization on Tuesday launched the first-ever guidance for manufacturers of antibiotics on what to do with their wastewater.

Building on the Latin American initiative “Empowered Communities to Tackle Antimicrobial Resistance,” the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and ReAct have facilitated the collection of key asks from communities and civil society worldwide as part of a Call for Global Action.

Resistance to antibiotics could cause ten million deaths a year by 2050, according to a United Nations Development Programme report. Scientists say climate change is also driving the looming crisis. Why is there such risk and what’s being done about it?

Drug-resistant bacteria kill >1M people per year. This is the story about how CARB-X is helping to address the global health threat of AMR.