West Africa, like most low- and middle-income countries, faces the triple burden of malnutrition.
If action is not taken, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) will cost $100 trillion and claim 10 million lives annually by 2050.
There is growing recognition that more research is necessary to understand the role of human-made and natural environments in the global emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
A number of countries and international organizations have stressed the need for integrated surveillance systems to comprehensively detect and monitor antimicrobial resistance (AMR), particularly in animal and environmental reservoirs.
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a bacteria that causes severe infections in hospitalized patients. The worldwide emergence of carbapenem-resistant P. aeruginosa (CR-PA) makes infections by these pathogens almost untreatable.
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes are the leading cause of death globally. In the last decade, Kenya has observed a significant rise in obesity, a major NCD risk factor.
Asia has undergone a rapid socio-economic transition that is linked to a large-scale change in dietary patterns towards high-energy and low-nutrition food products. The continent is now home to half of all overweight or obese children under five.
South Africa has sub-Saharan Africa’s highest levels of obesity, with approximately 70% of women and 30% of men in South Africa either overweight or obese.
Low and middle-income countries are experiencing the burden of nutrition-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes, largely driven by increasingly unhealthy food environments.
Southeast Asia is in an economic and demographic transition whereby increasing income is not accompanied by improved nutrition.