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SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands

Action for hand hygiene!

This global annual campaign aims to galvanise action at the point of care to demonstrate that hand hygiene is the entrance door for reducing health care-associated infection and patient safety.

By 5 May 2010 well over 10,000 health care facilities around the world had joined the campaign!

Sustaining the effort

Large numbers of health-care facilities registering demonstrate the impetus and impact of awareness-raising, but numbers are not the end point.

Sustaining the efforts to improve patient safety requires dedicated action and innovation both of which are now more crucial than ever.

:: Read more about the current stage of the campaign

What you can do

:: Register now!
You can still register now and be part of a global movement to improve hand hygiene!
11 989 health-care facilities from around the globe have already registered!
:: View registration numbers

ATTEND LIVE FREE WEBINARS

:: Webinars on infection control
Next webinar 17 August 2010

USE THE TOOLS

:: WHO Hand Hygiene Self Assessment Framework
Get started with your activities or assess progress with this new tool.

:: All hand hygiene improvement tools

ADVOCACY RESOURCES

:: To help promote SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands in health-care facilities

Key information

LATEST NEWS

:: Latest news from SLCYH
All the latest news for 5 May and more.

BACKGROUND

:: Learn more about SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands