Making a truly global effort to combat the antibiotic resistance crisis.

 Making a truly global effort to combat the antibiotic resistance crisis.

While I admire efforts being made to combat the antibiotic resistance crisis, I am wondering how global the efforts have been. I work on antibiotic discovery but I have not seen any such initiatives reaching out to my team.

Even when I have reached out to organizations and institutions that are championing the antibiotic solutions, there are no responses to me.

I hope the organizations with the mandate and resources will operate in a truly global manner and build a broad coalition for success.

The huge nature of the antibiotics resistance crisis calls for an all hands on deck approach. Not a reclusive and closed group approach where only a few selected people can participate.

When the days of reckoning come it would not look good to finally and desperately reach out to the once marginalized people who though had demonstrated advanced science and useful contributions were ignored.

It’s easier to break down barriers to collective action in crisis times but it’s even better and wiser to do so by accurately envisioning how the looming crisis will look like and do all the right things now.

Give those of us in the global south the opportunities to make our contributions count. In spite of our governments and societies not providing the same levels of support and resources to push our efforts forward. After all, the human mind is the greatest resource and there is a need to make all of our efforts count.