Sudanese refugees in Aboutengue camp, Eastern Chad. 2024. Access to effective diagnostics is severely limited in many of the remote and rural places, lacking in infrastructure, where MSF works. Photo credit: Laora Vigourt
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28 June 2024

Bridging the access gap to microbiology diagnostics is a critical part of the global response to antimicrobial resistance (AMR)

Photo credit: Laora Vigourt
Sudanese refugees in Aboutengue camp, Eastern Chad. 2024. Access to effective diagnostics is severely limited in many of the remote and rural places, lacking in infrastructure, where MSF works. Photo credit: Laora Vigourt

Dr Jane Cunningham is a Diagnostics Advisor with MSF's Access Campaign. In this blog she takes a closer look at the important role of diagnostics in tackling antimicrobial resistance (AMR), and why we are advocating for improving microbiology diagnostic capacities in the places they are most needed, to be included as a priority in the plans for a global response to AMR, currently under discussion by UN member states.

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