Overview
- WHO reports that antimicrobial resistance is causing more than one million deaths annually and threatens health across humans, animals, plants and ecosystems.
- This year’s awareness campaign urges governments to convert commitments from the 2024 UN High‑Level Meeting on AMR into effective on‑the‑ground interventions under the slogan “Act now: protect our present, secure our future.”
- WHO’s Yvan Hutin warns that drug‑resistant pathogens are rising everywhere and that limited access to prevention, diagnostics and appropriate treatment increases the risk of resistant infections.
- The organization calls for coordinated action across sectors, engaging policymakers, health workers, veterinarians, farmers, environmental and wastewater professionals, researchers, civil society and communities.
- Scientists highlight diagnostic challenges such as heteroresistance, in which some bacteria evade antibiotics despite appearing susceptible in standard tests.