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Reports from Clean Care is Safer Care meetings and visits

Clean Care is Safer Care meeting with representatives from industry

• Fourth meeting – 2 February 2012
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  The forth meeting between WHO patient safety Programme and industry representatives took place in February 2012 with the aim of finalizing the proposal for the platform and other supporting documents, agreement on financial contribution and the schedule for supporting the platform, and discussing timing and mechanisms for the launch of the platform.
• Third meeting – July 2011
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  During the previous two meetings WHO Patient Safety Programme had with the industry representatives, the interest to work together to promote hand hygiene in health care facilities was visible. A third meeting was therefore held to have further discussions to take this idea forward.
• Second meeting - February 2011
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  Following discussions and decisions made during the first exploratory meeting on 21 September, 2010 between representatives from private industry and WHO, a second meeting was convened.
• First meeting - September 2010
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  In September 2010, an inaugural meeting took place with representatives from industry to discuss work towards improving hand hygiene in health care.

Archive Reports

Visits to pilot sites

• Visit by Didier Pittet to pilot site in Costa Rica, AMRO/PAHO
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  Professor Pittet visited San Josè in mid April 2008 to hear about the work being done and the progress being made at the National Children's Hospital in Costa Rica.
• Visit to pilot site in Bangladesh, SEARO
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  A member of the Clean Care is Safer Care team visited Chittagong Medical College Hospital in January 2008.
• Visit to pilot site in Costa Rica, AMRO/PAHO
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  A member of the Clean Care is Safer Care team undertook a training visit to the pilot site in Costa Rica in June 2007.

Technical meetings and workshops

• National workshop, Argentina - October 2008
  A national event on health care-associated infection took place in Buenos Aires in October 2008. This was coordinated by the Ministry of Health, Argentina and the Pan American Health Organization.
• Clean Care is Safer Care core group meeting - September 2008
  Members of the core group met in Geneva on 29 Sep-1 Oct 2008 to finalize the WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care.
• Infection control network meeting - June 2008
  This workshop was attended by 28 professionals, including six international experts, four focal points from Regional Offices and 16 professionals from six departments across WHO headquarters.
• Regional technical meeting, Egypt - May 2008
  Clean Care is Safer Care was launched in Egypt on 6 May 2008, as part of a regional technical meeting on the WHO Guidelines and implementation strategy on hand hygiene.
• Regional awareness-raising workshop, Rwanda - December 2007
  Delegates from 20 African countries participated in this workshop which focused on the work of Clean Care is Safer Care.
• Clean Care is Safer Care core group meeting - August 2007
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  The core group came together at WHO HQ to reflect on progress and consider the extent to which the work has mobilized key actors.
• Country campaigning meeting - August 2007
  This meeting explored the opportunities for strengthening the global response to health care-associated infections through the solidarity of a formal partnership of nations.
• Regional workshop, Thailand - June 2007
  The workshop provided a platform for sharing technical knowledge and information relating to the prevention of health care-associated infection and particularly hand hygiene improvement across the South East Asian region.
• Regional workshop, Costa Rica - March 2007
  The workshop was convened to develop a regional strategy for reducing health care-associated infection in Latin America and the Caribbean through better hand hygiene and other improvements in infection control practices.