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More than 80 pharmaceutical companies have called on governments to develop new ways of paying them to develop antibiotics.
In a joint declaration, at the World Economic Forum, they said the value of antibiotics "does not reflect the benefits they bring to society".
In return, they have promised to invest in research and improve access to antibiotics around the world.
Signatories include GSK, Merck, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson.
There have been repeated warnings the world is on the cusp of a "post-antibiotic era", raising the prospect of untreatable infections.
It would be a world in which surgery and cancer therapies, reliant on antibiotics, would be under threat.
Drug-resistant microbes are predicted to kill 10 million people a year by 2050 and cost $100 trillion in lost economic output.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-35363569
In a joint declaration, at the World Economic Forum, they said the value of antibiotics "does not reflect the benefits they bring to society".
In return, they have promised to invest in research and improve access to antibiotics around the world.
Signatories include GSK, Merck, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson.
There have been repeated warnings the world is on the cusp of a "post-antibiotic era", raising the prospect of untreatable infections.
It would be a world in which surgery and cancer therapies, reliant on antibiotics, would be under threat.
Drug-resistant microbes are predicted to kill 10 million people a year by 2050 and cost $100 trillion in lost economic output.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-35363569