Countries in the Asia Pacific region, including India, today pledged to collaborate to combat the threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and strengthen regulation of production and sale of antibiotics and other antimicrobial medicines.<br/><br/>Health ministers of various countries met in Tokyo today and agreed to improve the way information is collected on AMR, which endangers global health by making life-saving antibiotics ineffective.<br/><br/>Union Health Minister J P Nadda, in his ministerial speech, underlined the need to regulate the availability of drugs to tackle it.<br/><br/>Antibiotics resistance and failure to tackle infections undermine advancements that have been made in surgery and medicine, he said.