U.N. News: Antimicrobial resistance a ‘global health emergency,’ U.N., ahead of awareness week “By 2050, some five million people could die each year in Asia alone due to resistance to antibiotic medicines or antimicrobials, according to U.N. agencies. … The U.N. agencies, which include the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO),…

Agence France-Presse: WHO maps dangerous misuse of antibiotics “The World Health Organization warned Monday that antibiotics consumption is dangerously high in some countries while a shortage in others is spurring risky misuse, driving the emergence of deadly superbug infections. In a first, the United Nations health agency said it had…

Daily Nation: Antibiotic resistance is a grave threat to future of global health Matshidiso Moeti, WHO regional director for Africa “Nothing less than global health security is at stake when antibiotics are misused. … The World Health Organization (WHO) will join the global community to observe the World Antibiotic Awareness…

CNBC: Superbugs pose a dangerous, $65 billion threat to the U.S. health care system “Antimicrobial resistance is a large and growing problem, with the potential for enormous health and economic consequences for the United States and the rest of the world. According to a new OECD report, released Wednesday, superbug…

Forbes: Less Than A Penny A Day Keeps the Superbugs At Bay, Says OECD Report “Just a couple of dollars a year per person could prevent three quarters of the projected deaths due to so-called superbugs — bacteria that have evolved to resist antibiotics, predicts the Organization for Economic Cooperation…

IDSA’s “Science Speaks”: 49th Union World Conference on Lung Health: 90 percent of participants in short-course XDR-TB regimen cured after six months (Aziz, 11/2). IDSA’s “Science Speaks”: 49th Union World Conference on Lung Health: Integrating HIV treatment and TB preventative therapy greatly improves IPT adherence (Aziz, 10/31).

Infectious Disease Society of America: IDSA Urges Strengthened U.S. Leadership of Global Health Security Agenda “As Global Health Security Agenda partners meet in Indonesia this week to commit to their next steps in improving epidemic readiness worldwide, the Infectious Diseases Society of America is asking the U.S. Department of Health…

CNN/Bureau of Investigative Journalism: The U.S. defeated Kabul superbugs in its military, but locals still struggle “…Military doctors started noticing an influx of patients with multidrug-resistant infections from 2003, two years after the Afghanistan war started, but it was years before the Army identified the scope of the problem. ……

Health Policy Watch: Investing In New Antibiotic Research: Difficult Equation Discussed At World Investment Forum “The diminishing arsenal of efficient antibiotics to fight bacteria is a threat denounced by many, but investment in research and development of new antibiotics is seen as lagging. As the danger of getting back to…

Al Jazeera: India’s air quality plummets to worst possible category (10/26). BBC Future: One country’s plan to solve the world’s hidden health crisis (Taormina, 10/25). Devex: Q&A: World Food Prize laureate Lawrence Haddad (Welsh, 10/29). Devex: Q&A: Rajiv Shah on the Rockefeller Foundation’s new priorities and strategies (Cheney, 10/29). Health…