Anti-infectives are medicines that work to prevent or treat infections, they include antibacterials, antivirals, antifungals and antiparasitic medications.
Anti-infectives have revolutionized healthcare and are now critical in curing and even helping to prevent many kinds of infection. Thanks to anti-infectives, we can:1
Treat minor infections and most often cure many serious infectious diseases, like pneumonia or tuberculosis
Perform routine procedures and complex surgery, such as cesarean sections or joint replacements, which carry a risk of serious infection
Give vital immuno-suppressive treatments, like chemotherapy, to people with cancer
Alarmingly, many anti-infectives are losing their effectiveness due to antimicrobial resistance (AMR).1
