Health economics
2026-04-26
9 minute read
5 sources
Antimicrobial Resistance in Sub-Saharan Africa 2026: Surveillance Gaps and Financing Arithmetic
Sub-Saharan Africa carries the highest per-capita AMR burden on the planet, yet captures the smallest share of surveillance, diagnostics, and stewardship finance. This brief sets out the arithmetic of closing that gap by 2030.
Sub-Saharan Africa carries the world's highest age-standardized mortality from bacterial antimicrobial resistance, with an estimated 1.05 million deaths attributable or associated with resistant infections each year. Yet the region contributes less than 9 percent of records in the WHO GLASS dataset, finances roughly 12 percent of the diag...