Advocacy videos

World hand hygiene day 2021: Campaign video

World Hand Hygiene Day is celebrated annually on 5 May and the 2021 campaign slogan is “Seconds save lives – clean your hands”. This video message by the WHO Deputy Director General (Dr Zsuzsanna Jakab) and global hand hygiene expert Prof Didier Pittet (University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland) shares the messaging and key elements of the campaign and how you can get involved. This year we have many ideas and products for you to get involved in World Hand Hygiene Day!

See below for more videos on who we would like action to be taken by as explained by WHO Deputy Director General (Dr Zsuzsanna Jakab) and global hand hygiene expert Prof Didier Pittet (University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland).

WHO World Hand Hygiene Day 2021: Calls to action videos

• Health care workers: Now more than ever - clean your hands at the point of care!
• IPC practitioners: Be a champion and mentor for clean hands at the point of care.
• Facility managers: Ensure hand hygiene supplies are available at every point of care.
• Policy-makers: Invest now to ensure hand hygiene for all.
• Patients and families: Help us to help you: please clean your hands.
• Vaccinators: Clean your hands with every vaccine.
• Everyone: Make clean hands your habit - it protects us all! 

Applying the WHO multimodal strategy for successful infection prevention improvements in health care!

This video provides explanations about the approach and elements of the WHO infection prevention and control multimodal strategy and inspires users to apply it as the most effective strategy to prevent health care-associated infections and antimicrobial resistance.

Initiative for patient safety - hand hygiene with private organisations

This video provides an inspirational overview of the activities of the Private Organisations for Patient Safety (POPS) - Hand Hygiene initiative and the strong commitment of its member companies to support the WHO World Hand Hygiene Day annual campaign and also to promote hand hygiene improvement in health care facilities worldwide, in partnership with the World Health Organization.

A call from Professor Didier Pittet to join this year's Faces of the Campaign

Click here to learn how you can join and be featured in this year's Faces of the Campaign!

Thank you for your support!

Your actions will build public trust, support, confidence and co-operation.