SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands
5 May 2019
Clean care for all – it's in your hands
WHO calls on everyone to be inspired by the global movement to achieve universal health coverage (UHC), i.e. achieving better health and well-being for all people at all ages, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all. Infection Prevention and Control, including hand hygiene, is critical to achieve UHC as it is a practical and evidence-based approach with demonstrated impact on quality of care and patient safety across all levels of the health system
Campaign material
Health workers: “Champion clean care – it’s in your hands."
IPC leaders: “Monitor infection prevention and control standards – take action and improve practices.”
Health facility leaders: "Is your facility up to WHO infection control and hand hygiene standards? Take part in the WHO survey 2019 and take action!”
Ministries of health: "Does your country meet infection prevention and control standards? Monitor and act to achieve quality universal health coverage."
Patient advocacy groups: "Ask for clean care – it’s your right."
Link between Infection Prevention and Control and Quality Universal Health Coverage
Social media
Solidarity chain for Clean Care For All
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Be inspired by the "health for all" movement. Get ready to form a chain, with linked hands at a set meeting point in your organization on or around 5 May - invite everyone! Everyone involved in the chain will then have the opportunity to demonstrate their commitment to Clean Care for All through clean hands, using alcohol handrub or holding their hands in the air. Read more in the instructions and template invitation! This activity builds on the solidarity chains that took place around the world for World Health Day.
Advocacy slides
5 Moments for Hand Hygiene posters here
The 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene are not just for hospitals, every setting should be targeted which will in turn support people centred quality health services and quality health for all, in line with this year's campaign theme.
Find the 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene posters here
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Web sites promoting WHO SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands
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!
