Clean Care is Safer Care

2008 events

The Lancet Health Care-Associated Infection Conference

11-12 December 2008 - London, UK

Regional workshop (EMRO) on health care-associated infection

29 November 2008 - Sousse, Tunisia

Infection Control Conference - Northern Ireland

Infection Control Conference - Northern Ireland

RAFT: Interactive Course - Clean Care is Safer Care

8am GMT - Wednesday 5 November 2008

9th Congress of the International Federation of Infection Control

14-17 October 2008 - Santiago, Chile

Global Handwashing Day

15 October 2008

National Workshop on HAI - Argentina

8-10 October 2008 - Buenos Aires, Argentina

5th Biennial AICA 2008 National Conference

8-10 October, 2008 - Melbourne, Australia

Clean Care is Safer Care Core Group Meeting

29 Sep-1 Oct 2008
Geneva, Switzerland

Annual Infection Control Conference JCI Resources

18-19 September 2008 - Chicago, Illinois, USA

13th International Symposium on Staphylococci and Staphylococcal Infection

7-10 September 2008, Cairns, Australia

Ministerial signing event "Clean Care is Safer Care"

3 September 2008 - Yaoundé, Cameroon

HKICNA Infection Control Conference

30 August-1 September 2008 - Hong Kong SAR, China

Infection Control Network meeting

26-27 June 2008 - Geneva, Switzerland

13th Int'nl Congress for Infectious Diseases (ICID)

19-22 June, 2008 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

35th Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) Annual Conference

15-19 June, 2008 - Denver, Colorado USA

CHICA-AIPI 2008 Education Conference

29 May-2 June 2008 - Montreal, Ontario, Canada

2nd Geneva Health Forum

25-28 May 2008 - Geneva, Switzerland

26th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID)

14-16 May 2008, Graz, Austria

21st European Congress on Surgical Infections

1-3 May, 2008 - Antalya, Turkey

9th Congress of the Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Krankenhaushygiene

20-23 April 2008 - Berlin, Germany

18th European Congress on Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases

19-22 April 2008, Barcelona, Spain

National Patient Safety Foundation Annual Congress

15-16 May 2007, Nashville, USA

EMRO workshop on patient safety

6-8 May 2008 - Cairo, Egypt

Hong Kong Hospital Authority Convention

5-6 May 2008, Hong Kong SAR, China

18th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases

19-22 April, 2008 - Barcelona, Spain

18th SHEA Annual Scientific meeting

5-6 April 2008 - Orlando, USA

Serbia commits to First Global Patient Safety Challenge "Clean Care is Safer Care"

3 April 2008 - Belgrade, Serbia

Association of Medical Microbiology & Infection Control Canada - CACMID Annual Conference

27 February-2 March 2008 - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

4th Annual Minimizing Healthcare-Associated Infections Conference

30-31 January 2008 - Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

The Control of Infectious Diseases: Virulence, Antibiotics and Bacterial Infection

30 January, 2008 - London, United Kingdom

Launch of the Hong Kong hand hygiene campaign

21 January 2008 - Hong Kong SAR, China

Emerging & Re-emerging Diseases - New Perspectives, New Approaches and New Tools

18-19 January 2008 - Hong Kong SAR, China

Key documents

Hand hygiene guidelines cover

WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care (revised Aug 2009)

Guide to implementation of the WHO multimodal hand hygiene improvement strategy (revised Aug 2009)

Videos and podcasts

Contact us

For more information about Clean Care is Safer Care, please contact the team at savelives@who.int.