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The EU's AMR budget is €62 million, she said, and next year it will launch the European Partnership on One Health AMR, which aims to support collaboration between the EU, national agencies, researchers, and funders. AMR threat similar to the climate crisis The UNGA last met to discuss AMR in 2016, meaning the new agreement is the first global political action on the issue in nearly a decade. It calls for animal farms to shift from using antimicrobials to vaccines whenever possible, for drug manufacturers and others to improve their waste management in order to prevent antibiotics from getting into the water supply, and to ensure that at least 80 per cent of countries have the ability to test for antibiotic resistance in bacterial and fungal pathogens by 2030. If we don't find the money to do the research" to bring new antibiotics to the market, "then we are going to see more and more people dying," Mottley said."