High-Level Meeting on antimicrobial resistance…

• Opening segment
• Plenary segment 
• Closing segment 

The High-level Meeting will consist of an opening segment, a plenary, two interactive multi-stakeholder panels, and a closing segment.

• Panel 1 will address the urgent antimicrobial resistance crisis across the human, animal, plant, and environmental sectors through equity, access, building awareness, and innovation.
• Panel 2 will discuss human health, animal health and welfare, agrifood systems, and protecting the environment to tackle antimicrobial resistance, through integrated surveillance, capacity-building, sustainable resources, financing, and investment.

The high-level meeting is expected to approve a concise and action-oriented political declaration with a shared vision including the consideration of measurable targets and objectives on mobilizing political will and action to address the drivers, sources and challenges of antimicrobial resistance, agreed in advance by consensus through intergovernmental negotiations, to be submitted by the President of the General Assembly for adoption by the Assembly.

In 2016 the first high-level meeting on AMR resulted in a political declaration that laid the foundation for global action against Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR).

According to the World Health Organization, AMR is one of the top global public health and development threats. It is estimated that bacterial AMR was directly responsible for 1.27 million global deaths in 2019.

The World Bank estimates that it could result in US$ 1 trillion additional healthcare costs by 2050, and up to US$ 3.4 trillion gross domestic product (GDP) losses per year by 2030.