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. 2024 May;25(3):49-50.
doi: 10.1177/17571774241239044. Epub 2024 Mar 19.

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

Claire Kilpatrick  1 , Ermira Tartari  1 , Miranda Deeves  1 , Didier Pittet  2 , Benedetta Allegranzi  1
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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

Claire Kilpatrick et al. J Infect Prev. 2024 May.

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: Hand hygiene; global health; health care-associated infection; infection prevention and control.

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The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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