SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands

Hand hygiene is the primary measure to reduce health care-associated infection

Launched 5 May 2009, the SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands initiative aims to support health-care workers to improve hand hygiene and stop the spread of infection.

• Be part of a global movement to improve hand hygiene;
• Join the network of countries that already have hand hygiene campaigns operating;
• Help fight HAI in your country;
• Use the WHO toolkit to improve hand hygiene compliance and have access to other updates and resources from WHO Patient Safety;
• Share your knowledge and successes with others
• Make patient safety Your No 1 priority.

5801 hospitals in 125 countries and territories have already registered! Register your support now! Enlarge map [jpg 177kb] Registration update Graph showing cumulative total of registrants [gif 40kb] Chart showing regional spread of registrants [gif 16kb] Country pledge videos Sweden | Vietnam Events took place around the world on and around 5 May to initiate SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands. See all events

Professor Didier Pittet, MD, MS University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine Tools and resources WHO Multimodal Hand Hygiene Improvement Strategy. The World Health Organization (WHO) Patient Safety team has provided a suite of tools to support health-care facilities to prepare effective Action Plans to improve hand hygiene, regardless of their starting point. My 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene Learn more about the evidence- based approach of the key moments for hand hygiene in healthcare.