Antimicrobial stewardship

And that's why I think it's what we can do is from a political perspective, you know, push for more congressional oversight, advocacy, trying to make sure that if this is going to happen and continue, which will continue based on this economic model, is that we try to at least try to protect the people in detention as much as possible against some of these outbreaks or some of these vulnerabilities.

What role does antimicrobial stewardship play in ICE facilities or in migrant populations as a whole? And how can stewardship principles be applied when access to diagnostics, follow-up care, and specialty consultation may be limited?

Thank you.

You know, I learned this by preparing for this podcast, and I also learned this from my, I would say, experience in doing some of these medical exams over the last years.

And there is some secondary transmission.

But I think the important thing here is, as you said from the very beginning, and again, repeating from the mission, the shame mission, is providing safe care for everyone.

And I think the issue of understanding antimicrobial resistance and antimicrobial stewardship is crucial because we know that there's different stories that show that there's an association between the emergence of antimicrobial resistance and poverty.

Low-income populations, different studies with MRSA, for example, or with gram-negatives, multi-drug-resistant organisms, where, you know, as I mentioned before, you know, migrant people are exposed to conditions favoring the emergence of drug resistance, such as, again, being from low-income populations.