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

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

doi:10.1186/s13756-024-01391-8

Scientific article

Editorial

English

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

ContributorsKilpatrick, Claire; Tartari, Ermira; Deeves, Miranda; Pittet, Didier; Allegranzi, Benedetta

Published inAntimicrobial resistance and infection control, vol. 13, no. 1, 41

Publication date2024-04-12

First online date2024-04-12

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".

Keywords

Humans
Capacity Building
Hand Hygiene
Hand
World Health Organization
Health Personnel

Affiliation entities

Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de médecine

Research groups

Résistance aux antibiotiques (866)

Citation (ISO format)

KILPATRICK, Claire et al. 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. In: Antimicrobial resistance and infection control, 2024, vol. 13, n° 1, p. 41. doi: 10.1186/s13756-024-01391-8