Doctors Without Borders urges U.S. to sustain support for AMR work in low-resource settings

Ava Alkon, representing Doctors Without Borders (MSF), said that AMR disproportionately kills people in low- and middle-income countries and described multidisciplinary field responses that still lack sufficient resources. MSF asked PACCARB to consider how microbiome findings can inform interventions in fragile and conflict-affected settings and urged clarity on which federal agencies will lead and how resources will be committed.

Alkon stressed that microbiome-relevant interventions—nutrition, diagnostics and stewardship—are critical in settings where severe malnutrition and recurrent enteric infections drive repeated antimicrobial exposure and spread of resistant organisms. She asked PACCARB to keep global equity central to recommendations.