Rapid lab methods for detection of serious infection in remote communities

Project Year:

2015

Location:

Western Australia, Sri Lanka

There is currently no news about this project yet.

News

Make AMR History campaign

The predictions are gloomy. Based on figures gathered by the UK government, deaths due to antibiotic resistant infections are going to overtake cancer deaths by 2050, when an estimated 10 million people will die from resistant infections worldwide every year. Already, 25,000 people die from antibiotic resistant infections every year in Europe and it is getting worse faster than we can keep up with new antibiotics.
Lab Without Walls current and past activities
- 1. Mobile Emerging Infectious Disease Response
- 2. Sentinel Laboratory Network in regional Sri Lanka
- 3. Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR) Countermeasures