Targeting Drug Resistance – Achievable Goals to Keep Antibiotics Working

The problem of antimicrobial resistance – AMR for short – is clear. More and more of these germs resistant to existing treatments are emerging everywhere, and there’s little disagreement that governments, nonprofits, doctors, patients, and politicians all need to help tackle the problem.But people need to agree on what to do, and they need to agree on how to measure progress.That’s where targets come in.Aislinn Cook, a senior research fellow in infectious disease epidemiology on the antimicro...