While the report recognises some good progress made by Member States in putting measures in place against antimicrobial resistance, notably improved surveillance of antibiotic use and resistance, and closer cooperation between different professionals on this issue, it states that more still needs to be done. It stresses that Member States need to develop and implement national strategies and action plans to tackle the problem of antimicrobial resistance, and there should be better exchange of good practice on issues such as vaccination campaigns, and hygiene and infection control.

Only 0. 1% of the 25 million people living with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa have access to lifesaving drugs or indeed for the drugs for the opportunistic infections such as meningitis, drug-resistant diarrhoea, oral thrush and those other infections.

E. whereas these symptoms are appearing at the same time and at the same place as the development of resistance among Varroa mites and the simultaneous increase in secondary infections (e.g. viruses and spiroplasms),

E. whereas these symptoms are appearing at the same time and at the same place as the development of resistance among Varroa mites and the simultaneous increase in secondary infections (e.g. viruses and spiroplasms),

In particular, in accordance with Annex X, emergency vaccination should be carried out – albeit not on a mandatory basis – if (alongside other criteria) infected herds on holdings referred to in Article 10 cannot be stamped out within 24 hours after the confirmation of the disease, and the pre-emptive killing of animals likely to be infected or contaminated cannot be safely carried out within less than 48 hours.

At the same time, new HIV infections continue to occur in Canada at a rate of about 4,000 per year.