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MY 5 MOMENTS FOR HAND HYGIENE

The My 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene approach defines the key moments when health-care workers should perform hand hygiene.

This evidence-based, field-tested, user-centred approach is designed to be easy to learn, logical and applicable in a wide range of settings.

This approach recommends health-care workers to clean their hands

• before touching a patient,
• before clean/aseptic procedures,
• after body fluid exposure/risk,
• after touching a patient, and
• after touching patient surroundings.

Find out more about My 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene by clicking the links below.

WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care

WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care (Summary Version) A summary of the final, revised and updated version (May 2009) is now available

Hand Hygiene Posters

How to Handrub [pdf 436kb]
How to HandWash [pdf 468kb]

Hand Hygiene When and How Leaflet

A summary of when and how to perform hand hygiene.
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'My five moments for hand hygiene': a user-centred design approach to understand, train, monitor and report hand hygiene

Sax H, et al. J Hosp Infect 2007; 67(1): 9–21
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