Sweden adopts alternative measures to combat global antibiotics shortage

The declining amount of new antibiotics against multi-resistant bacteria has caused the Swedish government to test an alternative pricing model for procuring antibiotics, and this has brought three new products onto the Swedish market. The industry calls for similar models in other countries.
The Swedish authorities are trying to buy antibiotics in a new way to ensure the possibility of treating multi-resistant bacteria. | Foto: Francisco Bonilla/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix
The Swedish authorities are trying to buy antibiotics in a new way to ensure the possibility of treating multi-resistant bacteria. | Foto: Francisco Bonilla/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix
BY ELIZABETH MØNSTED JOHANSEN, TRANSLATED BY NIELSINE NIELSEN

Sweden is one of the countries that both pharmaceutical companies and lobby organizations look towards when it comes to selling new antibiotics products.

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