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Tackling AMR With the IMF

The world has made significant and relatively fast progress in the fight against antimicrobial resistance. But to ensure continued success, more effective mechanisms are needed to hold governments to their increasingly lofty promises.

LONDON – This month is the first anniversary of the United Nations High-Level Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance, which the United Kingdom’s independent Review on AMR helped to bring about. That moment last year was very gratifying for me, as the chairman of the Review, as well as for my team and the UK’s Chief Medical Officer, Sally Davies.

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