Every year, antimicrobial resistance causes the death of around 700 000 people, and this number is expected to rise to an estimated 10 million deaths annually by 2050.1 Antimicrobial resistance has the potential to affect almost all sustainable development goals (SDGs), particularly those targeting poverty, hunger, health and economic growth. Although the reduction and eradication of antimicrobial resistance is not included as an individual SDG, paragraph 26 of Transforming our world: the 2030 agenda for sustainable development states: “We will equally accelerate the pace of progress made in fighting malaria, [human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome], tuberculosis, hepatitis, Ebola and other communicable diseases and epidemics, including by addressing growing antimicrobial resistance and the problem of unattended diseases affecting developing countries.”.
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