Antibiotics

As the Earth becomes hotter, we’re seeing more floods and droughts. Flooding can make superbugs spread faster and further. And heat helps germs adapt faster

Antimicrobial resistance threatens global health and economic stability. Urgent investment in surveillance, innovation and stewardship is critical to containment

UFS team undertakes research to test the presence of ammonium compounds used in sanitisers in the ecosystem, which lead to resistant micro-organisms in water systems

The list of medicines nurses can prescribe hasn’t changed since 1984, so they can’t dispense beyond schedule four drugs

Superbugs are fighting back and our state hospitals don’t have the right specialists or enough funding to stop more germs from becoming untreatable

Germs are outsmarting medicine faster than South Africa’s overburdened facilities can keep up with them

Study reveals how high concentrations of pharmaceutical products are ending up in False Bay’s marine environment

We are facing possibly the greatest health threat of our time: drug-resistant infections. But here’s why there’s hope the world can change course.

Poor practices in the industry lead to disease, use of antibiotics and contamination of water and soil

The overuse and abuse of antibiotics strengthens lethal, drug-resistant bacteria.

Research shows that the way doctors describe medical conditions can affect whether or not a patient demands antibiotics.

Several initiatives are under way to stop the abuse of antibiotics.

A new strain of drug-resistant bacteria has made landfall in South Africa.

When medication fails, transplant surgery becomes virtually impossible.

In the near future we’re going to have to learn to live without these essential drugs once again