Antibiotics Crisis Needs Focused Global Approach “Similar To AIDS” – Conference Told

A solution to global antibiotics resistance will need co-ordination, focused drug innovation and the selective use of new medicines, in a manner not unlike that which turned HIV from a terminal illness into a chronic condition, participants at the Pharma Summit 2015 are told.

The looming antibiotics resistance crisis threatens the very underpinning of modern medicine and has the potential to be more lethal than AIDS, but the lack of viable business models and political will to promote drug development to combat it means the search for viable options remains at an early stage and lacks a way forward.

That was the main takeaway from a panel discussion and keynote presentation on the subject at the Economist Pharma Summit...

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