Drug-resistant infections now kill more Africans than HIV/AIDS or malaria, signaling a new era of global health insecurity, according to Gatefield, a public strategy organisation.
If unchecked, Gatefield warned that antimicrobial resistance could claim 10 million lives annually by 2050, surpassing cancer as the world’s leading cause of death.
According to the organisation, Africa’s health systems are under unprecedented pressure; from rising chronic diseases, drug-resistant infections, to underfunded mental and women’s health services which threaten millions of lives.