UN fights against Superbugs

 All 193 UN member states met on September 21st and pledged to increase international coordination and funding aimed at monitoring the emergence of Superbugs and reducing the misuse of antibiotic.
“We are losing our ability to protect people and animals from life-threatening infections,’’ UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said at the opening of the day-long meeting. Dr. Margaret Chan, director general of the World Health Organization, called antimicrobial resistance “a serious threat to human health, development and security.” Chan said the commitment countries are making needs to be turned into rapid and effective action. “Hurry up,” she said.
The enormity of the crisis can be gauged by the fact that this is only the fourth time in history that the UN General Assembly (UNGA) has addressed a health issue – the others being HIV, noncommunicable diseases, and Ebola.
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