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World Hand Hygiene Day 2022: Unite for safety: clean your hands

by Public Health Update

Overview

The World Hand Hygiene Day aims to maintain global promotion, visibility and sustainability of hand hygiene in health care and to ‘bring people together’ in support of hand hygiene improvement around the world. The SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands global campaign was launched in 2009 and celebrated annually on 5 May.
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Calls to action

  • Health care workers: thank you for leading by example and encouraging others to clean their hands.
  • IPC practitioners: thank you for engaging health workers to be part of new hand hygiene initiatives.
  • Quality and safety leads: thank you for working with infection prevention colleagues to support hand hygiene improvement.
  • Facility managers: thank you for promoting a quality and safety culture to ensure clean hands.
  • Policy makers: thank you for prioritizing resources, training and programmes on hand hygiene.
  • People who use health care: thank you for getting involved in local hand hygiene campaigns and activities.

Source of info: WHO

5 key actions

To speed up progress, governments should prioritize 5 key actions:

  • Good governance through leadership, effective coordination and regulation, including clear policies on handwashing services and behaviours in all settings.
  • Smart public finance to ensure maximum impact and stimulate investments from households and the private sector.
  • Assessment of current capacity with respect to their hand hygiene policy and strategies, identification of gaps and development of capacity-building strategies based on the rigorous application of best practice.
  • Governments should address the need for consistent data on hand hygiene in order to inform decision-making and make investments strategic.
  • Governments and supporting agencies should encourage innovation, particularly on the part of the private sector, in order to roll out hand hygiene in all settings.

Download: State of the world’s hand hygiene


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