Declaration on Antibiotic Resistance - América Latina en Movimiento
peter.suber's bookmarks 2014-10-17
Summary:
"The recently established Antibiotic Resistance Coalition of civil society groups has issued a comprehensive Declaration...outlining the problem of resistance and proposing four types of urgent action to tackle the crisis....[Recommendation 32:] Innovation requires access to the building blocks of knowledge. We call for public leadership to establish pooled efforts and support open research. These might include enriching compound libraries with potential new drug candidates, providing specimen banks to aid developers of new diagnostics, building clinical trial networks to ease recruitment of patients, sharing pre-clinical and clinical data, and publishing findings in open access journals...."