‘Seconds save lives – clean your hands’: the 5 May 2021 World Health Organization’s SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign

Benedetta Allegranzi,Didier Pittet,Ermira Tartari

doi:10.3396/ijic.v17.21418

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‘Seconds save lives – clean your hands’: the 5 May 2021 World Health Organization’s SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign

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The year 2020 was unprecedented in many ways, one of which was the tremendous attention given to appropriate hand hygiene practices in the fight against SARS-CoV-2
In the context of the pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched several initiatives, including the new WHO and UNICEF Hand Hygiene for All initiative to consistently improve hand hygiene practices as a whole-of-society approach to stop the spread of SARS-CoV-2 and sustain good practices beyond the pandemic
Adequate infrastructures should be provided in healthcare and public settings, including schools and public transportations, and appropriate behaviour to clean hands when needed should be taken by all key players. This year, the WHO’s SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign focuses on achieving appropriate hand hygiene action at the point of care

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The year 2020 was unprecedented in many ways, one of which was the tremendous attention given to appropriate hand hygiene practices in the fight against SARS-CoV-2. Hand hygiene has gained global recognition from policy-makers, health managers, healthcare workers and the general public as a keystone in infection prevention.

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