Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is already wreaking havoc and is the result of the massive use of these products to treat humans, animals or for food. AMR is already one of the leading causes of death worldwide, directly responsible for 1.27 million deaths per year, including one in five among children under five.
Within a decade, AMR would cost the world $412 billion a year in additional healthcare costs and $443 billion in lost workforce productivity, according to a commissioned economic impact study.