Imagine a world without antibiotics. Where treatable infections become untreatable, where routine surgery like a hip operation becomes too risky to carry out, and where every wound is potentially life-threatening.

What would go through your mind if your child cut their finger and you knew there was no antibiotic left that could treat an infection? This was the human condition until almost a century ago. I don’t want it to be the future for my children, yet it may be unless we act.

Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) is a growing and global problem among both humans and animals.

A British study, overseen by the economist Lord O’Neill, found that AMR was estimated to cause at least 700,000 deaths around the world each year, and that, unchecked,