Ensuring progress on sustainable access to effective antibiotics at the 2024 UN General Assembly: a target-based approach

Rising antimicrobial resistance(AMR)is a global health crisis for countries of all economic levels,alongside the broader challenge of access to antibiotics.As a result,development goals for child survival,healthy ageing,poverty reduction,and food security are at risk.Preserving antimicrobial effectiveness,a global public good,requires political will,targets,accountability frameworks,and funding.The upcoming second high-level meeting on AMR at the UN General Assembly(UNGA)in September,2024,is evidence of political interest in addressing the problem of AMR,but action on targets,accountability,and funding,absent from the 2016 UNGA resolution,is needed.