May 5 is World Hand Hygiene Day

By Cristiano Antonino On May 5, 2023

World Hand Hygiene Day, WHO: Accelerate action together. SAVE LIVES – Clean Your Hands

Hand hygiene saves millions of lives every year when performed at the right moments during health care delivery

It is also a smart investment that offers exceptional return for each dollar invested.

Clean care is a sign of respect to those who seek care, and it protects health and other workers who provide that care.

Now is a critical time when countries across the world need to accelerate implementation of lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic and increase investments to close gaps in infection prevention and control (IPC), including hand hygiene.

Indeed, many countries are demonstrating strong engagement and advancements in scaling-up those actions, but overall, the progress is slow, and gains are at risk.

Together, we can galvanize action on preventing infections and antimicrobial resistance in health care.

Strong and engaged communities of health workers, policy makers and civil society organizations (CSOs) can accelerate and sustain action at the point of care to keep people safe and healthy.

For World Hand Hygiene Day 2023, we put CSOs in focus

Driven by their passion, values and strong social justice agendas, and often in close proximity to the communities they serve, CSOs can spearhead and accelerate change at local, national and international levels.

WHO is calling on all CSOs and other partner organizations (e.g. members of the Global IPC Network) to engage with the campaign and accelerate progress at achieving effective hand hygiene at point of care!

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