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Global report on IPC 2024
December 6 , 2024
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- Though 71% of countries now have an active infection prevention and control (IPC) program, just 6% met all of the WHO IPC minimum requirements in 2023-2024.
- This is far behind the target of more than 90% by 2030 set in the WHO Global action plan and monitoring framework on IPC.
- Approximately one in four (23.6%) of all hospital-treated sepsis cases are health care-associated.
- Almost one half (48.7%) of all cases of sepsis with organ dysfunction treated in adult intensive care units (ICU) are hospital-acquired.
- Each year, 7.7 million deaths are attributed to bacterial infections worldwide.
- The global number of hospital-associated infections resistant to antibiotics was estimated to be 136 million annually.
- 4.95 million deaths were associated with bacterial AMR annually.
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