DAR ES SALAAM, Dec. 1 -- As years go by, we are witnessing worrying scenarios where a woman loses her husband to a drug-resistant infection, a newborn succumbs to in an infection which fails to respond to first-line antibiotics, a farmer watches animals fail to thrive despite treatment, and a clinician is forced to make impossible choices when diagnostics are scarce and the “last resort” drug is either inaccessible or no longer works.

These are the disturbing realities of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) which occurs when microorganisms—like bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites—change over time and no longer respond to the medicines designed to kill them. Infections, as a result, become harder or impossible to tr...