Dhaka, May 21 -- Vaccines can play a critical role in reducing infections, lowering antibiotic use, and combating antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Bangladesh, a new policy brief released by the Global Antibiotic Resistance Partnership (GARP), led by the One Health Trust and icddr,b.

The widening immunisation gaps and declining vaccine confidence could reverse decades of public health progress and worsen the country's growing AMR burden, it said.

The brief, The Value of Vaccines in Mitigating Antimicrobial Resistance in Bangladesh, argues that

vaccines should be recognised not only as tools to prevent infectious diseases, but also as a

critical strategy to lower antibiotic use, slow the spread of drug-resistant infections, and protect...