By VERAH OKEYOMore by this AuthorAntimicrobial resistance, the term used to describe medication losing their power to cure, is threatening the management of HIV and cancer, health experts have warned. Dr Eveline Wesangula of the Global Antibiotic Resistance Partnership (Garp) at the Ministry of Health says HIV patients need antibiotics to curb opportunistic infections, but are increasingly showing no signs of response to prescriptions. Antibiotics, modern medicine’s prized possessions, have been abused so much that they can no longer cure diseases that they once conquered. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that this resistance is “threatening every achievement of modern medicine”. When TB becomes resistant, taxpayers pay as much as Sh2 million to treat one patient, and the National TB programme reported that there were nearly 900 drug-resistant TB infections in 2015.

Source: Daily Nation November 28, 2016 20:26 UTC