Antimicrobial resistance - World Health Organization (WHO) Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites change over time and no longer respond to medicines making infections harder to treat and increasing the risk of disease spread, severe illness and death
Global antibiotic resistance surveillance report 2025 This new WHO report presents a global analysis of antibiotic resistance prevalence and trends, drawing on more than 23 million bacteriologically confirmed cases of bloodstream infections, urinary tract infections, gastrointestinal infections, and urogenital gonorrhoea
Antimicrobial resistance - World Health Organization (WHO) Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) threatens the effective prevention and treatment of an ever-increasing range of infections caused by bacteria, parasites, viruses and fungi AMR occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites change over time and no longer respond to medicines making infections harder to treat and increasing the risk of disease spread, severe illness and death As a result
Antimicrobial resistance - World Health Organization (WHO) Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) occurs when microorganisms no longer respond to antimicrobial medicines There are different types of antimicrobials, which work against different types of microorganisms, such as antibacterials or antibiotics against bacteria, antivirals against viruses, antiparasitics against parasites, and antifungals against
Antimicrobial Resistance - World Health Organization (WHO) Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites change over time and no longer respond to medicines making infections harder to treat and increasing the risk of disease spread, severe illness and death Misuse and overuse of antimicrobials are the main drivers in the development of drug-resistant pathogens
The next pandemic is already here: Antimicrobial resistance is upending . . . The pandemic of antimicrobial resistance – or AMR - isn’t a science-fiction scenario In many ways, it’s already here Countering the threat of antimicrobial resistance AMR is truly one of the most urgent, complex and, yes, frightening health challenges of our time
WHO warns of widespread resistance to common antibiotics worldwide The new Global antibiotic resistance surveillance report 2025 presents, for the first time, resistance prevalence estimates across 22 antibiotics used to treat infections of the urinary and gastrointestinal tracts, the bloodstream and those used to treat gonorrhoea
Infection prevention and control - World Health Organization (WHO) Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global crisis that threatens a century of progress in health and achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and achieving Universal Health Coverage Alarming levels of resistance have been reported in countries of all income levels, with the result that common diseases are becoming untreatable, and lifesaving medical procedures riskier to perform
Antibiotics most responsible for drug resistance are overused – WHO report The World Health Organization (WHO) today published an analysis of how antibiotics are used globally The report is based on 2022 data from the Global Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and Use Surveillance System (GLASS) dashboard and the WHO Access, Watch, Reserve (AWaRe) system that classifies antibiotics into three categories:Access antibiotics are often recommended as first- or second-choice