![]() ![]() New research from Northwestern University suggests that many of the deaths among hospitalized COVID-19 patients were associated with pneumonia - a secondary bacterial infection that must be treated with antibiotics. ![]() During the COVID-19 pandemic for instance, large percentages of those hospitalized with COVID-19 required treatment for secondary bacterial infections. Even if the world faces another viral pandemic, secondary bacterial infections will be a serious issue.Without knowing what the next pandemic will be, the “pandemic treaty” must plan, prepare and develop effective tools to respond to a wider range of pandemic threats, not solely viruses.Why Anti- Microbial Resistance need to be included in the Pandemic Treaty? The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control was set up under Article 19 and it came into force in 2005.A two-third majority is needed to adopt such conventions or agreements. Article 19 of the WHO Constitution gives the World Health Assembly the authority to adopt conventions or agreements on matters of health.Since the beginning of negotiations on the Pandemic Instrument, there have been calls from civil society and leading experts, including theGlobal Leaders Group on Antimicrobial Resistance, to include the so-called “silent” pandemic of antimicrobial resistance in the instrument.The legal nature of the treaty is yet to be defined. While the EU wants the treaty to be legally binding, the U.S., Brazil and India have expressed reservations about the same.A widely-accepted theory points that the novel coronavirus may have jumped from animals to humans in a wildlife market of China. The European Union (EU) also wants a ban on wildlife markets to be included in the treaty.Most countries have followed the “me-first” approach which is not an effective way to deal with a global pandemic, ![]() Solutions to the COVID-19 pandemic have seen an inequitable distribution of vaccines so far, with poorer countries at the mercy of others to receive preventive medication.
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