The directive covers wastewater and solid waste management for manufacturing of antibiotics, and comes ahead of a High-Level Meeting on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) that will be held during the UN General Assembly later this month in New York.

Mpox, Ebola, Covid-19, dengue — these outbreaks are now household names across the world. The frequency and intensity of such diseases are becoming more common. Jeremy Farrar, Director of Wellcome, a global health charitable foundation, says, "We are going through an era of epidemics and pandemics, and they are going to be more complex and more frequent."

Masalah Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) atau Resistansi Antimikroba yang semakin berkembang menimbulkan ancaman signifikan terhadap kesehatan masyarakat dan hewan. AMR menyebabkan biaya pengobatan yang lebih tinggi dan membahayakan tujuan nasional untuk pengendalian penyakit serta ketahanan pangan.

Pemerintah melakukan terobosan pencegahan stunting akibat malnutrisi bagi bayi lahir prematur atau Berat Badan Lahir Rendah (BBLR) dan anak dengan kelainan metabolik langka. Langkah tersebut dilakukan untuk meningkatkan kualitas hidup para penderitanya.