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A Public Health Emergency of International Concern? Response to a Proposal to Apply the International Health Regulations to Antimicrobial Resistance
Adam Kamradt-Scott critiques a proposal to apply the International Health Regulations (IHR) to the global health threat of antimicrobial resistance.
Citation: Kamradt-Scott A (2011) A Public Health Emergency of International Concern? Response to a Proposal to Apply the International Health Regulations to Antimicrobial Resistance. PLoS Med 8(4): e1001021. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001021
Published: April 19, 2011
Copyright: ? 2011 Adam Kamradt-Scott.
This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Funding: No specific funding was received to write the article. The author receives research funding from the European Research Council under the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme - Ideas Grant 230489 GHG. All views expressed remain those of the author.
Competing interests: The author previously attended the intergovernmental negotiations on the revised IHR in February and May, 2005, as a member of a government delegation.
Abbreviations: AMR, antimicrobial resistance; IHR, International Health Regulations; PHEIC, public health emergency of international concern; WHO, World Health Organization
* E-mail: Adam.Kamradt-Scott@lshtm.ac.uk
Provenance: Commissioned; not externally peer reviewed.
Linked Policy Forum
This Perspective discusses the following new Policy Forum published in PLoS Medicine:
Wernli D, Haustein T, Conly J, Carmeli Y, Kickbusch I, et al. (2011) A Call for Action: The Application of the International Health Regulations to the Global Threat of Antimicrobial Resistance. PLoS Med 8(4): e1001022. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001022 http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001022
Stephen Harbarth and colleagues argue that the International Health Regulations (IHR) should be applied to the global health threat of antimicrobial resistance.
There is little question that the international spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an alarming development that the global public health community must confront as a matter of some priority. Reducing the incidence of new cases will take the concerted effort and participation of all community sectors, and will require strong political leadership. The World Health Organization (WHO) is best placed to lead the international community's efforts to tackle this phenomenon, and as evidenced by the release of a new fact sheet on 21 February 2011 [1], the WHO Secretariat is acutely aware of the dangers microbial resistance presents.
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Adam Kamradt-Scott critiques a proposal to apply the International Health Regulations (IHR) to the global health threat of antimicrobial resistance.
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Citation: Kamradt-Scott A (2011) A Public Health Emergency of International Concern? Response to a Proposal to Apply the International Health Regulations to Antimicrobial Resistance. PLoS Med 8(4): e1001021. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001021
Published: April 19, 2011
Copyright: ? 2011 Adam Kamradt-Scott.
This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Funding: No specific funding was received to write the article. The author receives research funding from the European Research Council under the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme - Ideas Grant 230489 GHG. All views expressed remain those of the author.
Competing interests: The author previously attended the intergovernmental negotiations on the revised IHR in February and May, 2005, as a member of a government delegation.
Abbreviations: AMR, antimicrobial resistance; IHR, International Health Regulations; PHEIC, public health emergency of international concern; WHO, World Health Organization
* E-mail: Adam.Kamradt-Scott@lshtm.ac.uk
Provenance: Commissioned; not externally peer reviewed.
Linked Policy Forum
This Perspective discusses the following new Policy Forum published in PLoS Medicine:
Wernli D, Haustein T, Conly J, Carmeli Y, Kickbusch I, et al. (2011) A Call for Action: The Application of the International Health Regulations to the Global Threat of Antimicrobial Resistance. PLoS Med 8(4): e1001022. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001022 http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001022
Stephen Harbarth and colleagues argue that the International Health Regulations (IHR) should be applied to the global health threat of antimicrobial resistance.
There is little question that the international spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an alarming development that the global public health community must confront as a matter of some priority. Reducing the incidence of new cases will take the concerted effort and participation of all community sectors, and will require strong political leadership. The World Health Organization (WHO) is best placed to lead the international community's efforts to tackle this phenomenon, and as evidenced by the release of a new fact sheet on 21 February 2011 [1], the WHO Secretariat is acutely aware of the dangers microbial resistance presents.
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