{"id":403664,"date":"2026-02-11T14:17:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T19:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/?p=403664"},"modified":"2026-02-11T19:55:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T00:55:54","slug":"york-u-study-warns-gaps-in-antibiotic-access-pose-global-health-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/2026\/02\/11\/york-u-study-warns-gaps-in-antibiotic-access-pose-global-health-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"快播视频 study warns gaps in antibiotic access pose global health threat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Researchers at York\u2019s Global Strategy Lab<\/a> undertook a study to understand the difficulties these groups face and found barriers at every stage of the health care pathway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Significant structural, financial and systemic challenges lead to informal or incorrect use of antibiotics, the research finds, which increases the risk of antibiotic resistance and misuse. <\/p>\n\n\n Resistance occurs when antibiotics are used too often or incorrectly, making them less effective and leaving infections more difficult to treat. Globalization, which drives people to migrate due to rising economic, political and environmental instabilities, has increased migrants\u2019 and refugees\u2019 vulnerability to drug-resistant infections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMigrants and refugees are at heightened risk because they often live in crowded or unstable conditions, have limited access to health care and sometimes rely on unsafe sources of antibiotics \u2013 all of which make antibiotic resistance more likely,\u201d explains Steven Hoffman<\/strong>, Faculty of Health<\/a> and Osgoode Hall Law School<\/a> professor and co-author of the study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n