After more than a decade of work to combat #antibioticresistance, @pewhealth’s antibiotic resistance project will wrap up at the end of 2024.

It has been a privilege to work alongside many of you, and we thank you for your ongoing engagement on this critical issue.

“Wars can kill thousands, but bacteria kills millions,” Baghdad Teaching Hospital's Osama Zuhair Salman says. nytimes.com/2024/11/26/mag…

.@LADeptHealth has been integrating antibiotic-use metrics into required reporting for Medicaid providers.

"If you don’t measure, you can’t monitor. You don’t know what you don’t know," Kolynda Parker says. pew.org/4fKnbIQ

@pewhealth @CDC_AR @IDSAInfo @CF_Foundation @SepsisAlliance @AMRActionFund @gardp_amr @CARB_X @GlobalAMRHub @theAMRnarrative @pewtrusts We are grateful to each of you for your interest and attention to #antibioticresistance, and we look forward to seeing the progress to come in the fight against #superbugs.

Thanks for everything,

The @saveantibiotics team

Recently, @pewtrusts commissioned a team of independent experts to review the #antibiotic resistance project’s work over nearly 10 years in the field.

Here's what it found: pewtrusts.org/en/trust/archi…

One of my favorite @MathematicaNow 2024 podcasts: Taking stock of how public health data gets reported in all 50 states+DC, w/a focus on the role of state policy in requiring/encouraging faster, more complete reporting. @pewtrusts @CSTEnews @AIRA_ImmReg mathematica.org/blogs/moderniz…

NEW: A first-of-its kind nationwide assessment of public health data reporting policies & practices.

Accurately, timely data is essential for improving & protecting public health throughout the U.S. Our report looks at how we tackle data across 50 states. pew.org/3OUNIrE

To keep #antibiotic makers afloat, researchers and their output need to be valued "not based on the volume of sales, but on their value to society", @koutterson says. globalhealthnow.org/2024-11/superb…

"We need to have a plan," @UW's Dr. Paul Pottinger says of the growing threat of #AMR. publicnewsservice.org/2024-11-15/hea…

“Bacteria have one aim in life. They’re going to survive. They survived before us and unfortunately, they might be surviving millions of years after us," @HananBalkhy says. news.un.org/en/story/2024/…

"Imagine what happens if you get an infection from going into the garden or having a baby or going to the dentist. These are things that can bring your life to an end if #antibiotics are not effective," @miaamormottley warns. jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

The current pipeline for new antibiotics is “on the verge of collapse,” @koutterson warns. globalhealthnow.org/2024-11/superb…

A financial incentive policy implemented by the Japanese government in 2018 was associated with a nearly 20% reduction in antibiotic prescriptions in young children, without adverse health outcomes, researchers report. cidrap.umn.edu/antimicrobial-…

“Antibiotic-resistant infections impact real patients that we take care of in our health care setting," @VUMCchildren's Dr. Ritu Banerjee says. news.vumc.org/2024/11/08/pat…

“It was horrible," @UKAMREnvoy says of watching her goddaughter die from an #AMR infection. theguardian.com/society/2024/n…

"Anyone, anywhere is at risk of these #superbugs." — @wellcometrust youtube.com/watch?v=iC3uRg…

“If you dismantle the health infrastructure of urban life, you can take more lives than bombs could ever do,” says Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah, who has studied the link between war and #AMR. nytimes.com/2024/11/26/mag…