Mendelson, M;
Lewnard, JA;
Sharland, M;
Cook, A;
Pouwels, KB;
Alimi, Y;
Mpundu, M;
Wesangula, E;
Weese, JS;
Røttingen, J-A;
et al.
Mendelson, M; Lewnard, JA; Sharland, M; Cook, A; Pouwels, KB; Alimi, Y; Mpundu, M; Wesangula, E; Weese, JS; Røttingen, J-A; Laxminarayan, R
(2024)
Ensuring progress on sustainable access to effective antibiotics at the 2024 UN General Assembly: a target-based approach.
Lancet, 403 (10443).
pp. 2551-2564.
ISSN 1474-547X
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(24)01019-5
SGUL Authors: Sharland, Michael Roy Cook, Aislinn Jane
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Abstract
Rising antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global health crisis for countries of all economic levels, alongside the broader challenge of access to antibiotics. As a result, development goals for child survival, healthy ageing, poverty reduction, and food security are at risk. Preserving antimicrobial effectiveness, a global public good, requires political will, targets, accountability frameworks, and funding. The upcoming second high-level meeting on AMR at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in September, 2024, is evidence of political interest in addressing the problem of AMR, but action on targets, accountability, and funding, absent from the 2016 UNGA resolution, is needed. We propose ambitious yet achievable global targets for 2030 (relative to a prepandemic 2019 baseline): a 10% reduction in mortality from AMR; a 20% reduction in inappropriate human antibiotic use; and a 30% reduction in inappropriate animal antibiotic use. Given national variation in current levels of antibiotic use, these goals (termed the 10-20-30 by 2030) should be met within a framework of universal access to effective antibiotics. The WHO Access, Watch, Reserve (AWARE) system can be used to define, monitor, and evaluate appropriate levels of antibiotic use and access. Some countries should increase access to narrow-spectrum, safe, and affordable (Access) antibiotics, whereas others should discourage the inappropriate use of broader-spectrum (Watch) and last-resort (Reserve) antibiotics; AWARE targets should use a risk-based, burden-adjusted approach. Improved infection prevention and control, access to clean water and sanitation, and vaccination coverage can offset the selection effects of increased antibiotic use in low-income settings. To ensure accountability and global scientific guidance and consensus, we call for the establishment of the Independent Panel on Antimicrobial Access and Resistance and the support of leaders from low-income and middle-income countries.
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Additional Information: | © 2024. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | ||||||||
Keywords: | Humans, Anti-Bacterial Agents, Global Health, United Nations, Health Services Accessibility, Drug Resistance, Microbial, Humans, Anti-Bacterial Agents, Drug Resistance, Microbial, United Nations, Health Services Accessibility, Global Health, 11 Medical and Health Sciences, General & Internal Medicine | ||||||||
SGUL Research Institute / Research Centre: | Academic Structure > Infection and Immunity Research Institute (INII) Academic Structure > REF 2021 user group |
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Journal or Publication Title: | Lancet | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1474-547X | ||||||||
Language: | eng | ||||||||
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Publisher License: | Creative Commons: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 | ||||||||
PubMed ID: | 38797179 | ||||||||
Web of Science ID: | WOS:001251258300001 | ||||||||
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URI: | https://openaccess.sgul.ac.uk/id/eprint/116726 | ||||||||
Publisher's version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(24)01019-5 |
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