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WHO’s World Hand Hygiene Day 2023

Each year the SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign aims to progress the goal of maintaining a global profile on the importance of hand hygiene in health care and to ‘bring people together’ in support of hand hygiene improvement globally.

WHO calls on everyone to be inspired by the global movement to achieve universal health coverage (UHC), i.e. achieving better health and well-being for all people at all ages, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all. Infection Prevention and Control, including hand hygiene, is critical to achieve UHC as it is a practical and evidence-based approach with demonstrated impact on quality of care and patient safety across all levels of the health system.

Call to Action:

  • Health and care workers: Love the 5 moments.
  • IPC practitioners: Lead the way for clean hands.
  • Policy makers: Invest for health and dignity.
  • Those who access care: Join the movement

How to get involved in and support World Hand Hygiene Day  5 May 2023 – https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-hand-hygiene-day/2023/how-to-get-involved