Hygiene is multi-faceted and comprises many behaviours, including hand- and face washing, menstrual hygiene and food hygiene. Hand washing with soap at crucial events such as after visiting the toilet, defecating or before preparing food was estimated to be a poorly practised behaviour globally.

Mar 19, 2011 · 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.

Regardless of whether gloves are worn, hand hygiene at the right times and in the right way is still one of the most important measures to protect patients and health workers in healthcare. By 2026, hand hygiene compliance monitoring and feedback should be established as a key national indicator, at the very least in all reference hospitals. Currently 68% of countries report they are …

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 ...

Jul 31, 2009 · Hand hygiene is therefore the most important measure to avoid the transmission of harmful germs and prevent health care-associated infections. This brochure explains how and when to practice hand hygiene.

Good hand hygiene is a highly cost-effective public health measure, and a cornerstone of safe and effective health care. It is crucial to protecting against a range of diseases, stopping the transmission of COVID-19, and preventing other outbreak-related diseases. It is also critical to combatting antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The Hand Hygiene for All Global Initiative aims to …

SANITATION AND HYGIENE Sanitation is defined as access to and use of facilities and services for the safe disposal of human excreta. In addition to preventing disease by avoiding contact with pathogens or parasites contained in excreta, sanitation also aims to promote human dignity and well-being. Sanitation services range from the provision and emptying of toilets to the …

Jan 28, 2025 · Overview This poster is part of the World Hand Hygiene Day 2025 celebrated every year on 5th May. This is this year's main campaign poster. For print-ready pdf files, please click here.

Compilation of the facts, evidence, numbers, examples, and stats to be used to raise awareness about hand hygiene in messages and presentations.

May 6, 2022 · La pandémie de COVID-19 et d’autres grandes épidémies récentes ont montré dans quelle mesure les établissements de soins de santé pouvaient contribuer à la propagation des infections, portant ainsi préjudice aux patients, aux agents de santé et aux visiteurs, si l’on n’accorde pas suffisamment d’attention à la lutte anti-infectieuse. Mais un nouveau rapport de l ...