It's happening on the scale of a pandemic': the drug-resistant infections killing African babies
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Her tiny body hooked up to machines twice her size, her mother standing vigil at the side of her cot, Yusra was in a struggle for life.
Sepsis accounts for one in three newborn deaths in Ethiopia. Increasingly, infections that would once have been easily managed with antibiotics are no longer responding to the drugs.
In 2019, drug-resistant infections were linked to nearly five million deaths globally more than HIV and malaria combined. More than 20% occurred in sub-Saharan Africa.
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