The next decade in AMR: getting the basics right

Nov 18–24, 2025, marks the 10th edition of World AMR Awareness Week, an annual campaign led by WHO with the goal to increase awareness of global antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and to encourage best practices. Much has happened over this past decade—a pandemic, a seminal paper directly attributing over 1 million deaths each year to bacterial AMR, and a shift to One Health thinking—but the next decade will be pivotal in translating awareness into sustained action, innovative solutions, and global leadership to truly curb the threat of AMR.