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  • Save Lives: Clean Your Hands
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Key organizations supporting hand hygiene and the work of the First Global Patient Safety Challenge

  • Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC)
  • Centre for Disease Control: Clean Hands
  • European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Germs. Wash your hands of them
  • Hand Hygiene Resource Centre
  • Hopisafe
  • Institute for Healthcare Improvement
  • International Federation of Infection Control (IFIC)
  • International Hospital Federation
  • International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua)
  • Public-Private Partnership for Handwashing
  • Resource for Infection Control (NRIC) UK
  • Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA)
  • Webber Training Inc.
  • WHO Patient Safety web site
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Key documents

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

  • Full version [pdf 4.37Mb]
  • Summary [pdf 2.22Mb]
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Guide to implementation of the WHO multimodal hand hygiene improvement strategy (revised Aug 2009)

  • Download [pdf 465Kb]

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  • Hand hygiene related videos

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

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