SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands
5 May 2014
Are you ready to prevent the spread of antimicrobial resistant germs?
For 5 May 2014, WHO has issued a number of tools to support the call to action for this year’s SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign - "No action today; no cure tomorrow – make the WHO 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene part of protecting your patients from resistant germs". Many of these resources are not just useful on or around 5 May; plan to use them as part of your infection prevention strategy/annual programme or work.
What is WHO’s campaign registration goal for 2014?
- New registrations from at least 5 new countries – our overall aim at least one registered facility in every member state! (view registration numbers here)
- Increased registrations in countries with low numbers (at least up to 5 per country) and registrations in all countries in some regions where just a few countries have no registrations yet!
Help us to reach this goal by promoting the registration process to health-care facilities!
Two of the proposed 5 May 2014 activities are global surveys:
- A Global Prevalence Survey on Multidrug-Resistant Organisms (MDROs)– laboratories in health-care facilities around the world are asked to submit data from in-patient clinical blood and urine laboratory specimens, related to five selected key multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs).
- A Point Prevalence Global Survey on use of Surgical Antibiotic Prophylaxis (SAP) – surgical wards in health-care facilities around the world are asked to submit data on SAP in surgical patients of one or more wards on a given day.
Survey deadline extended to 15 June 2014.
Why should you take part in these surveys?
- Such data collection has never been done before on a global scale!
- Together we need to progress our understanding of global AMR information.
- Greater understanding will support everyone to better manage the burden of AMR, patient infections and care, as well as costs.
The links below will take you to the information on how to complete these surveys– thank you in advance for planning to take part and for encouraging others to do so.
- See the call for participation in the 5 May 2014 Global Surveys (these are old survey pages that are no longer active - do we need to reproduce these pages? Can't see a reason...so should the survey text be taken away?)
- Voyez ici notre appel à participer aux deux enquêtes mondiales du 5 mai 2014
- Véase el llamamiento de participación en las Encuestas Globales para el evento del 5 de mayo de 2014
What else is WHO providing to support 5 May 2014?
Infographic: How to prevent sepsis - the role you can play in health care and communities
Posters
Social media
Use these resources for social media postings or to print as stickers.
Newsletter
A monthly newsletter providing you with updates and advocacy wording you can disseminate in your area.
SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands newsletter
Web sites promoting WHO SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands
A monthly newsletter providing you with updates and advocacy wording you can disseminate in your area.
SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands newsletter
WHO acknowledges those who make every effort to support 5 May activities. Below are links to websites that feature and promote 5 May information and names of those promoting on their Social Media accounts. Many others disseminate messages via emails and newsletters - thank you for making this annual campaign truly global!
