When the drugs don’t work: the people living with the reality of the superbugs crisis

Naveed, a 25-year-old civil servant, lies in a Pakistan hospital recovering from major surgery after an accident on a building site. In the same ward, 47-year-old Malik, who cut his foot crossing the road, is now coming to terms with an emergency amputation. Ahamba, a nine-day-old baby in Nigeria, has been fighting an infection since she was born. And in the United States, Tamara, 39, lives in fear of the recurrent infections that have made her life a misery.

Separated by both circumstance and thousands of miles...