Antibiotics
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Sepsis occurs when one’s immune system has an extreme response to an infection. It’s a life-threatening condition: globally, it accounts for about 11 million deaths – 20% of all deaths per year. And it doesn’t just affect adults. In 2020, 2.4 million newborn babies died of sepsis in the first month of their lives. Most of these deaths happened in sub-Saharan Africa.…
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Nigeria has a multifactorial health system and a large but young population. The major causes of morbidity and mortality are communicable diseases, and these are generally managed using antimicrobial drugs whose usefulness is being threatened by antimicrobial resistance. AMR threatens all countries in different ways and to varying extents. This document lays out the situation…
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Globally, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has become a well-recognised public health threat in the recent years and interventions to reduce its burden have been launched worldwide. Like many countries, Nigeria is no exception to the challenges faced due to AMR. The emergence of multidrug-resistant organisms that have led to increasedmortality and economic burden have increased almost…
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Another death of a young child from Strep A will send a chill down the spine of any parent. So what is the risk and why the spate of deaths now? Group A streptococcus is a common bacterium that usually causes sore throats. But it can also cause scarlet fever, which is highly contagious. It’s…
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Be Antibiotics Aware is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) national educational effort to help improve antibiotic prescribing and use and combat antibiotic resistance. Antibiotic resistance is one of the most urgent threats to the public’s health. Antibiotic resistance happens when germs, like bacteria and fungi, develop the ability to defeat the drugs designed to…
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