Antimicrobial resistance in Africa: The data gap behind the crisis

This contributor piece by Chinaza Esiaba was first published on TechCabal Insights.

For years, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Africa has been described through increasingly stark numbers. AMR happens when bacteria and other microbes evolve to resist the drugs used to treat them, making common infections harder to cure and, in some cases, untreatable. A Lancet analysis estimated that western sub-Saharan Africa had the world’s highest death rate attributable to bacterial AMR in 2019: 27.3 deaths per 100,000 people. The figures…