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Drug resistant infections are the biggest threat to modern medicine killing more than 700,000 people globally each year. Antibiotic resistance can affect anyone, but it's children, the elderly, people living in poverty and those with weak immune systems most at risk.
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Situation
Drug resistant infections are the biggest threat to modern medicine. They already kill more than 700,000 people globally each year. However, as COVID-19 opens the door to secondary bacterial infections, which don’t always respond to antibiotic treatment these figures are now expected to be much higher. The COVID-19 virus weakens the immune system, leaving it susceptible to secondary bacterial infections. In addition the very act of ventilation itself can lead to infections.
Solution
We want to UNDERSTAND, SUPPORT and FIND MEDICAL TREATMENTS Understanding those communities and people most affected by antibiotic resistant infections (including the elderly and BAME communities) will help us to target our Patient Support activities, trusted information and medical research programme to best effect
