What they are saying: PASTEUR Act can help fight antimicrobial resistance

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing health crisis resulting in nearly 50,000 U.S. deaths each year and 1.27 million globally on an annual basis – higher than HIV/AIDS and malaria. To slow and control continued AMR, we need a robust pipeline of novel products, and at the same time we need to ensure they are used only in a limited set of circumstances and in only the most necessary cases. Without new products to address the problem, AMR globally could take 10 million lives yearly by 2050. Countless modern medical advances that depend on antibiotics—such as routine surgery, cancer therapy and treatment of chronic disease—will be jeopardized if action is not taken now.