Fighting antibiotic resistance: Ghana makes giant strides

Recently, issues on antibiotic resistance (ABR) have taken a centre stage in high profile global health meetings. ABR, a veritable ticking time bomb, as described by health experts, has potentially adverse ramifications of global proportion and have the capacity of throwing hard-won gains in global health into jeopardy. Besides its potential threat to global health security, resistance development by disease-causing germs(bacteria, virus, parasites, fungi) towards available and emerging medicines can hobble the control of infectious diseases (HIV-AIDS, TB, malaria, ebola virus disease etc. non-exempt), drive up the risk of death as well as healthcare cost. To demonstrate that matters of resistance are not fictional accounts confined only to the world of health experts, malarial endemic regions in the world including...