HEALTH LEADERS

Asia-Pacific countries sound alarm and commit to tackling antimicrobial resistance

​AMR is a rising threat to health and development globally and to countries and areas of the WHO South-East Asia and Western Pacific Regions - home to nearly half of the world's population. In 2019, AMR was the cause of an estimated 7,00,000 deaths in the two regions, representing more than half of the global deaths caused by AMR.