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Antimicrobial resistance: a concise update Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a serious threat to global public health, with approximately 5 million deaths associated with bacterial AMR in 2019. Tackling AMR requires a multifaceted and cohesive...

Reflection as we begin #WorldAntimicrobialAwarenessWeek #WAAW

🔴 #AMR is a growing global emergency

🔴 Solutions must go beyond prescribing #diagnostics #access #prevention

🔴 No one is safe until everyone is safe, solutions must reach all

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How attacking healthcare has become a strategy of war Gaza, Ukraine, and Sudan have put a spotlight on attacks on healthcare facilities and staff in conflict zones. The BMJ looks at the data, which seem to show a new strategy of war: removing civilians’ ...

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Attacks on medical personnel, facilities and services are increasing and are deliberate

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#Gaza #Ukraine #Sudan #Congo #Yemen #Afghanistan #Haiti @msf.ca

Sudan’s real-time genocide draws comparison to Bosnia and Rwanda Satellite imagery reveals house-to-house killings in el-Fasher, in the north of Sudan.

A “Rwanda-style” 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲 is unfolding in 𝗦𝘂𝗱𝗮𝗻 —with a scale of violence unseen since the mass killings in Bosnia, Srebrenica, and, a generation ago, in Darfur.

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#conflict #war #genocide #Sudan

Doctors can't stop genocide, world leaders can

#Gaza #MSF #Humanitarian #Genocide

#Ebola is back in #DRC

MSF is already responding

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#IDSky #EpiSky #MedSky #outbreaks

Advancing clinical bacteriology in humanitarian settings: The collaborative role of Médecins Sans Frontières Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing global health threat, particularly in resource-limited and conflict-affected settings. Access to Diagnosti…

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All about our pragmatic model for Diagnostics & Surveillance to address #AMR in our latest publication

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Ibuprofen and acetaminophen significantly increased mutation frequency and conferred high-level ciprofloxacin resistance
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Multidrug-resistant bacteria amid health-system collapse in Gaza Gaza's health-care system has faced widespread destruction during the ongoing Israeli military invasion that began in October, 2023, leading to a proliferation of disease outbreaks.1,2 During this tim...

Collapsed infrastructure, overcrowded hospitals, poor hygiene, and malnutrition have fueled #antimicrobialresistance and mortality in #Gaza

#Conflict is not just a battleground—but a global health threat

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Acquisition of Escherichia coli carrying extended-spectrum ß-lactamase and carbapenemase genes by hospitalised children with severe acute malnutrition in Niger - Nature Communications Hospital treatment for children with severe malnutrition may facilitate antibiotic resistance. Here, using rectal swabs from 1,371 children receiving treatment for severe acute malnutrition in Niger, ...

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In Niger, 76% of malnourished kids carried #AMR 𝘌 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘪, 25% with blaNDM-5 at admission.

By discharge, 69% 𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝗮𝗰𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱 it

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#IPC is essential in all hospitals

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MSF - AMR Clinical Lead in Bangalore / Delhi MSF 1. JOB PURPOSE Provide clinical leadership to the AMR program to achieve the program objectives from Delhi / Bangalore Lead and manage clinical HI

𝗠𝗦𝗙 is looking for a medical doctor to lead the #AMR program in #India

This includes strategic, clinical and research activities.

Check it out!

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Break the selective silence on the genocide in Gaza Substantial and well-documented evidence indicates a catastrophic public health emergency in Gaza (appendix pp 1–5), marked by severe food insecurity and alarming levels of malnutrition-related deaths...

Overwhelming evidence of the catastrophic public health crisis in #Gaza

This #Genocide should not continue

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#medsky #episky #conflict #war
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War wounds caused by explosive weapons in Gaza: data from a 2024 study by Médecins Sans Frontières As of July 23, 2025, Israel's military assault on Gaza has killed over 59 219 Palestinians, wounded an additional 143 045, and displaced nearly all of the 2·1 million people who live there.1 Triangula...

The true nature of the civilian suffering in #Gaza : 70% of war injuries were from explosive weapons.

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#Medski #Episky #conflict #amr @amrishbaidjoe.bsky.social @msf.ca

What the spread of the “great replacement” conspiracy theory means for humanitarian aid As racialised narratives increasingly determine how and where NGOs can operate, humanitarians must embrace a more politically informed approach to their work.

#Neutrality doesn’t mean political silence

Humanitarian action must be rooted in political and historical awareness, not only technical aid

www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025...

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Closure of the Fleming Fund risks undermining UK leadership on AMR - The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Please don't let this be true: the UK government couldn't possibly consider cutting funding for one of the major organisations working in the field of treatment resistant bacteria...could they? Surely they wouldn't do something that short sighted...would they?

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Appy and join us!

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Epidemiologist Epidemiologist for modelling AMR transmission in LMICMore than 500 staff members at the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) contribute e...

Great ID modelling opportunity to aim for real impact on mitigating and monitoring AMR in sub-Saharan Africa. You'll work closely with us @ox.ac.uk, and Oxford’s Modernising Medical Microbiology group, as well as collaborators at CRUN (Burkina Faso) and KWRTP-KEMRI (Kenya). tinyurl.com/mry25kxe

The ECDC is giving free training on this package: learning.ecdc.europa.eu/enrol/index....

The ECDC is giving free training on this: learning.ecdc.europa.eu/enrol/index....

The new version of R for AMR is ready!

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A powerful image to 𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗿 civilians affected by #conflict and the healthcare workers trying to 𝘀𝗮𝘃𝗲 them

#War must end. But while it continues, civilians and medical staff must be 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱

#Congo #Gaza #Syria #Sudan #Ukraine #Yemen
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Happy #InternationalNursesDay!!
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And thank you for your essential contribution to the health of the patients!

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Estimated undertreatment of carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative bacterial infections in eight low-income and middle-income countries: a modelling study Infections caused by CRGN bacteria are likely to be significantly undertreated in LMICs. To close this treatment gap, improved access to diagnostics and antibiotics, strengthening of health systems, a...

Less than 7% of people with severe infections in resource-limited settings get the antibiotics they need—leading to preventable deaths.

Improving equitable access to effective antibiotics must be a global priority.

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#equity #AMR #AMS #medsky #microsky #idsky

At the #ESCMIDGlobal in Vienna, @msf.ca presented key research on #AMR:

🧪 Salmonella and #HIV in #DRC
📈 Antibiotic use in #Syria
🦠 #NICU outbreaks in #CAR and #Afghanistan
💊 Vancomycin dose monitoring in #Gaza
📚 SR on AMR in #Mozambique

Thank you!

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@msf.ca is at #ESCMIDGlobal talking about #AMR!

Pass by our booth to know more about our work!

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@msf.ca continue to fight #cholera in #Yemen

In 2024, the country faced over 250,000 suspected cholera cases and 861 associated deaths. The threat continues in 2025.

This preventable disease should not cost lives!

#HumanitarianCrisis #PublicHealth #mesky #microsky #episky #vaccination #wash

In Maiduguri, #Nigeria, #AMR sepsis is killing children with #malnutrition

@msf.ca is fighting back with IPC, AMS & D&S - but this crisis won't end without food security and holistic health programs

#medsky #microsky

I think so! :)

Urinary tract infections #UTI are a major health issue, especially for #women
While #AMR is rising, cases like this— 𝘌. 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘪 fully susceptible to antibiotics—are becoming less frequent
Urgent action is needed to preserve effective treatments!
#WomenHealth #AntibioticResistance
#medsky

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