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People take medicines to cure infections or diseases caused by microorganisms. But what happens when the disease-causing germs don’t react, because they’ve become resistant to that drug?

Antimicrobial resistance threatens to thrust the world into a post-antibiotic era where today’s life-saving medicines fail. Slowing the development of drug-resistant microbes is the aim of a new partnership between FAO and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

Antimicrobials play a critical role to treat diseases for aquaculture and livestock, contributing to assure food safety and quality. However, misuse or overuse antimicrobials in aquaculture can be left in aqualtic products, in water and environment resulting in over and [...]

Antimicrobials are essential in treating human and animal infectious diseases. However, misuse and overuse of antimicrobials result in Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) which make them less or ineffective at treating diseases.  AMR has now been recognized as a significant threat to [...]

International and national animal and public health; and environment experts will gather in Phnom Penh for the fifth time to discuss the action plan to combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Cambodia.

This year’s World Antibiotic Awareness Week (WAAW) just ended on 19 November 2017. FAO ECTAD Indonesia, together with the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) of the Republic Indonesia and other related stakeholders successfully held several events which aimed to raise people’s [...]

La résistance aux antimicrobiens (RAM) intervient lorsque des bactéries, des virus, des parasites et des champignons développent une résistance aux médicaments qui avaient été auparavant utilisés pour les traiter. Selon une étude récente, chaque année, environ 700 000 décès sont [...]

قالت منظمة الأغذية والزراعة للأمم المتحدة (الفاو) أن الجهود لمواجهة انتشار الميكروبات المقاومة للأدوية في المزارع وفي النظم الغذائية بدأت تكتسب زخماً بفضل الدعم القوي من الحكومات والدعم الفني الذي يقوي القدرات الوطنية لمواجهة هذه المشكلة.

Durante el 14 de Noviembre, en Santiago de Chile, en la Oficina Regional de la FAO para América Latina y el Caribe se llevó a cabo un evento intitulado "Combatiendo Juntos la Resistencia a los Antimicrobianos", en el marco de [...]

Washington DC – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Liaison Office for North America (FAOLOW) and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) co-hosted a private roundtable discussion about the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) [...]