Last time there were floods in Sindh, water-borne diseases stayed rampant for months afterwards due to contaminated water. We cannot afford a similar health crisis again!

BIG news from India: People with drug-resistant TB can now access BPaLM i.e. more efficacious, much shorter, all-oral and has less side effects. It will also ensure better adherence and ambulatory treatment for many. Congrats to everyone who finally made this happen!

A superbug, doctor shortages and a neonatal unit ‘out of its depth’: failures at Lucy Letby hospital revealed theguardian.com/uk-news/articl…

Join Dr. Silvia Bertagnolio to explore how lessons from HIV, TB, & malaria surveillance can shape the future of globally #AMR monitoring Discover how improved data collection in LMICs can help reduce the burden of AMR. 📅 18 Sep ⏰ 13:00 BST 📍 LSHTM 🔗 bit.ly/3zc2NRh

Long-shot #journorequest (if these even work on Twitter anymore)... do I know anyone who worked on the One Show in 2016?

These last few months I’ve lost any fantasy in writing - it all feels so pointless, even pathetic in a time of endless horror. Christina Sharpe clears a way through the despair. yalereview.org/article/christ…

Harrowing accounts in The Bureau of Investigative Journalism of four people facing drug-resistant infections, from a newborn baby in Nigeria to a U.S. woman suffering from never-ending UTIs: thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024-0…

‘There’s still a huge lack of water, sanitation and hygiene capacity in the global south, and this is inextricably linked to drug-resistant infections, but also human dignity’ Misbah Khan

“Deaths from antimicrobial resistance are predicted to reach over 10m a year by 2050. And a global threat requires global solutions.” Misbah Khan

Interviewing prisoners as they are released from prison…

"Anyone anywhere can get an infection. But not everyone responds in the same way," Misbah Khan writes. thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024-0…

It's hugely disappointing that targets for cutting global farm antibiotic use have been dropped from the upcoming UN political declaration. The future of modern medicine is apparently less important than protecting the profitability of antibiotic misuse. usrtk.org/factory-farmin…

“These discussions were aimed at developing a cohesive narrative that reflected Africa’s unique challenges & proposed solutions [on antimicrobial resistance], ensuring that the continent’s voice is unified & impactful on the global stage,” the report said devex.com/news/the-afric…

🆕 Antimicrobial resistance poses an important global health challenge in the 21st century. A new in-depth global analysis suggests more than 39 million deaths from antibiotic-resistant infections could occur between now & 2050. Explore the data: buff.ly/3zlVE0U #AMR

🚨 Drug-resistant infections are expected to kill three people a MINUTE over the next 25 years, according to a major new study A total of 39 million people are predicted to die because of illnesses that have become untreatable thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024-0…