Saudi Arabia to host the fourth international ministerial conference on antimicrobial resistance in November 2024

The fourth international ministerial meeting on antibiotic resistance will be held in Saudi Arabia in November 2024. Saudi Arabia's Minister of Health Fahad Al-Jalajel made the statement, stating that the country will also participate in a campaign to raise awareness of the problem as part of the UN Declaration on Antimicrobial Resistance the next year.

Al-Jalajel pointed out that the incidents will aid in identifying effective and long-lasting responses while enhancing regional and global readiness for threats to public health.

The minister is leading a Saudi team that is now attending the 76th World Health Assembly, which is taking place at the UN's headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. 

The conference, "WHO at 75: Saving Lives, Driving Health for All," is taking place right now and lasts till May 30.

Al-Jalajel emphasised that the Kingdom was dedicated to pursuing the goals outlined in the leaders' declaration made during the 2020 G20 Summit, which Saudi Arabia presided over and was to be timed with the commencement of the coronavirus epidemic.

Al-Jalajel praised the organization's and its member states' efforts to update international health laws and the ongoing discussions to draught a pandemic treaty that would add new legal tools to deal with pandemics in the future and help the world get over some of the difficulties it had to face in fighting the coronavirus pandemic.