South Africa’s national action plan against antibiotic resistant bacterial infections remains unfunded

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South Africa’s national action plan against antibiotic resistant bacterial infections — one of the world’s great health crises — remains unfunded. Seven years after commitments were made at the launch of South Africa’s Antimicrobial Resistance National Strategic Framework, we are still on a list of countries which are able to celebrate having nice documents but not putting their money where their mouths are to execute them. Our government’s report card reads “Must do better”. The first four articles in this series on the pandemic of antibiotic resistance have explained the extent of death and …

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