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The silent pandemic of antimicrobial resistance Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock spoke at the United Nations high-level interactive dialogue on antimicrobial resistance (AMR). From: Your excellencies, esteemed colleagues. It’s an honour to join this important conversation today. For me, some of the scariest moments of this pandemic were right at the start, when we were dealing with so many unknowns. Before it was even called COVID-19, what we saw was a novel threat to the world’s health. We didn’t yet know how to treat it and it was far from certain that we would ever h...

UK donates medical supplies to PNG The United Kingdom has provided K2 million worth of vital medical equipment to help Papua New Guinea tackle the recent surge in COVID-19 cases. From: 28 April 2021 Anna Maalsen, WHO Representative, Hon Jelta Wong MP, Minister for Health, and Keith Scott, British High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea at the handover of UK funded medical equipment. The equipment, procured by the World Health Organization in PNG and aimed at breathing and respiratory needs, includes a portable x-ray machine, patient monitors, resuscitation sets, ventilation bags a...

Patterns and bottlenecks A year into the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 pandemic, we are experiencing waves of new variants emerging. Some of these variants have worrying functional implications, such as increased transmissibility or antibody treatment escape. Lythgoe et al. have undertaken in-depth sequencing of more than 1000 hospital patients' isolates to find out how the virus is mutating within individuals. Overall, there seem to be consistent and reproducible patterns of within-host virus diversity. The authors observed only one or two variants in most samples, but a f...

Workshop on antimicrobial resistance concludes Islamabad March 4, 2021 Islamabad : A two-day consultative workshop focusing on the basic concepts of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), its severity, and methods to estimate AMR concluded here Wednesday, with the staff of the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) and other regional provincial regulatory bodies benefiting from the capacity-building activity. Organised by the UK aid-funded Fleming Fund Country Grant-DAI, the workshop was arranged to apprise the participants of the importance of AMR and the stewardship programmes that can be ...