World Health Organization World Hand Hygiene Day, 5 May 2024. SAVE LIVES: clean your hands campaign: promoting knowledge and capacity building on infection prevention and control, including hand hygiene, among health and care workers

Claire Kilpatrick; Ermira Tartari; Miranda Deeves; Didier Pittet; Benedetta Allegranzi

doi:10.1186/s13756-024-01391-8

World Health Organization World Hand Hygiene Day, 5 May 2024. SAVE LIVES: clean your hands campaign: promoting knowledge and capacity building on infection prevention and control, including hand hygiene, among health and care workers

Antimicrob Resist Infect Control. 2024 Apr 12;13(1):41. doi: 10.1186/s13756-024-01391-8.

Authors

Claire Kilpatrick¹, Ermira Tartari¹, Miranda Deeves¹, Didier Pittet², Benedetta Allegranzi³

Affiliations

¹ Infection Prevention and Control Unit and Hub, Department of Integrated Health Services, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland.
² Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
³ Infection Prevention and Control Unit and Hub, Department of Integrated Health Services, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland. [email protected].

Abstract

The World Health Organization's (WHO) World Hand Hygiene Day continues to "bring people together and accelerate hand hygiene action at the point of care in health care to contribute to a reduction in health care-associated infections and the achievement of safer, quality health care for all".

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Capacity Building*
Hand
Hand Hygiene*
Health Personnel
Humans
World Health Organization

Grants and funding

001/WHO_/World Health Organization/International