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Bookmark or Share- Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) - World Health Organization (WHO)Safe drinking-water, sanitation and hygiene are crucial to human health and well-being. Safe WASH is not only a prerequisite to health, but contributes to livelihoods, school attendance and dignity and helps to create resilient communities living in healthy environments.
- World Hand Hygiene Day 2024 - World Health Organization (WHO)World Hand Hygiene Day sees the launch of a new, novel serious game entitled, "My 5 Moments: the Game"; this short teaser video provides you with some highlights from the game. The game is designed to encourage health care workers and students to creatively engage with the principles of hand hygiene in their real life encounters.
- Hand Hygiene for All Global Initiative - World Health Organization (WHO)This WHO and UNICEF-led initiative calls for countries to lay out comprehensive roadmaps that bridge together national COVID-19 preparedness and response plans with mid- and long-term national development plans to ensure hand hygiene is a mainstay beyond the pandemic, as part of infection prevention and control (IPC) and water, sanitation and ...
- Water, sanitation, hygiene and health: A primer for health professionalsSafe water, sanitation and hygiene (collectively known as WASH) are crucial for human health and well-being. Yet, millions of people globally lack adequate WASH services and consequently suffer from or are exposed to a multitude of preventable illnesses. Lack of safe WASH negatively impacts quality of life and undermines fundamental human rights.
- Infection prevention and control - World Health Organization (WHO)The solution. Most HAIs are preventable through hand hygiene performed at the right times.. The WHO Guidelines on hand hygiene in health care outline hand hygiene recommendations and are complemented by the WHO Multimodal hand hygiene improvement strategy, the Guide to implementation, and an implementation toolkit, which contains many ready-to-use practical tools.
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