Tracking Big Pharma’s Progress on AMR
With the launch of a new index to track major drug makers, generic producers, and biotech firms in the fight against antimicrobial resistance, we now have the data we need to make progress on this crucial public-health issue. The hope is that the many companies that have not been carrying their weight will finally feel compelled to act.
LONDON – This week, at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, the Access to Medicine Foundation (AMF) is launching an antimicrobial resistance (AMR) benchmark to “track how pharmaceutical companies are responding to the increase in drug-resistance.” The benchmark builds on recommendations made in the May 2016 final report of the British government’s Review on Antimicrobial Resistance, which I chaired, and on the important work being done by Chatham House, Drive-AB, the Global Union for Antibiotic Research and Development, the Pew Trusts, and the World Health Organization.