More than three million children around the world are thought to have died in 2022 as a result of infections that are resistant to antibiotics, according to a study by two leading experts in child health.
Children in Africa and South East Asia were found to be most at risk.
Antimicrobial resistance - known as AMR - develops when the microbes that cause infections evolve in such a way that antibiotic drugs no longer work.
It has been identified as one of the biggest public health threats facing the world's population.
A new study now reveals the toll that AMR is taking on children.
Using data from multiple sources, including the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank, the report's authors have calculated there were more than three million child deaths in 2022 linked to drug-resistant infections.
Experts say this new study highlights a more than tenfold increase in AMR-related infections in children in just three years.
Source: BBC News, 13 April 2025
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