More deaths than malaria and HIV/AIDS: What Africa is doing to fight the silent epidemic of antibiotic resistance

Each year antimicrobial resistance—the ability of microbes to survive agents designed to kill them— claims more lives than malaria and HIV/Aids combined. Africa bears the brunt of this development, which thrives on inequality and poverty. Nadine Dreyer asked Tom Nyirenda, a research scientist with over 27 years’ experience in infectious diseases, what health organizations on the continent are doing to fight this threat to medical progress.