Nigeria to host first African edition of global AMR conference

Nigeria is acceptable to big the Fifth Global High-Level Ministerial Conference connected Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) successful Abuja from December 6 to 8, 2026.

The Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Dr Iziaq Adekunle Salako, disclosed this during the One Health Ministers’ Briefing Meeting connected the league successful Abuja.

Speaking connected behalf of the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Muhammad Ali Pate, and different ministers, Salako said the league would bring unneurotic planetary leaders and stakeholders to reappraisal progress, accelerate interventions and fortify planetary practice successful tackling antimicrobial resistance.

The lawsuit volition beryllium the archetypal variation of the league to beryllium held connected African soil.

With the theme, “One Health: Advancing Global AMR Commitments done Local Action,” the league volition absorption connected translating planetary commitments into applicable enactment crossed quality health, carnal health, agriculture and the environment.

Salako noted that antimicrobial absorption remained a large planetary wellness threat, citing estimates that bacterial AMR was straight liable for 1.27 cardinal deaths worldwide successful 2019, including an estimated 64,500 deaths successful Nigeria.

“Without urgent action, the ...