WHO: Drug-Resistant Bacterial Infections Kill About 1m Yearly
ABUJA, Nigeria – Drug-resistant bacterial infections kill about one million people globally each year, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), which is calling…
Topic
AMR
WHA79 Adopts Ambitious Decade-Long Plan to Curb Antimicrobial Resistance Globally
ABUJA, Nigeria – Member States at the Seventy-Ninth World Health Assembly adopt a new Global Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) for 2026–2036, intensifying…
Experts Urge Increased Funding to Contain Escalating Antimicrobial Resistance Threat
ABUJA, Health experts have called for urgent and sustained funding to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Nigeria, warning that inadequate financing poses a major…
NCDC Launches Language Hackathon to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance
ABUJA, Nigeria – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has launched an innovative programme to bridge language gaps in the fight…
‘Test, Don’t Guess’ – Why Nigeria Must Put Diagnostics Before Treatment
ABUJA, Nigeria – As Nigeria faces a rising tide of drug resistance and preventable deaths, a quiet but deadly culture persists in its clinics…