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MSF’s report “The Broken Lens: Antimicrobial Resistance in Humanitarian Settings”, draws on nine operational case studies that illustrate the critical drivers, challenges and consequences of AMR in a range of contexts where MSF works.

The challenge of antibiotic resistance in post-war Mosul, Iraq: An analysis of 20 months of microbiological samples from a tertiary orthopaedic care centre.

“How COVID-19 highlighted the need for infection prevention and control measures to become central to the global conversation: experience from the conflict settings of the Middle East”.

Introduction of new drugs for drug-resistant TB in Iraq.

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