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- Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) - World Health Organization (WHO)
Safe drinking-water, sanitation and hygiene are crucial to human health and well-being Safe WASH is not only a prerequisite to health, but contributes to livelihoods, school attendance and dignity and helps to create resilient communities living in healthy environments
- Guidance on WASH and health - World Health Organization (WHO)
Personal hygiene Hygiene is multi-faceted and comprises many behaviours, including hand- and face washing, menstrual hygiene and food hygiene Hand washing with soap at crucial events such as after visiting the toilet, defecating or before preparing food was estimated to be a poorly practised behaviour globally
- Hand hygiene - World Health Organization (WHO)
Most HAIs are preventable through hand hygiene performed at the right times The WHO Guidelines on hand hygiene in health care outline hand hygiene recommendations and are complemented by the WHO Multimodal hand hygiene improvement strategy, the Guide to implementation, and an implementation toolkit, which contains many ready-to-use practical
- World Hand Hygiene Day 2025
Regardless of whether gloves are worn, hand hygiene at the right times and in the right way is still one of the most important measures to protect patients and health workers in healthcare By 2026, hand hygiene compliance monitoring and feedback should be established as a key national indicator, at the very least in all reference hospitals Currently 68% of countries report they are doing this
- Hand Hygiene: Why, How When? - World Health Organization (WHO)
Hand hygiene is therefore the most important measure to avoid the transmission of harmful germs and prevent health care-associated infections This brochure explains how and when to practice hand hygiene
- L’OMS publie le tout premier rapport mondial sur la lutte anti-infectieuse
La pandémie de COVID-19 et d’autres grandes épidémies récentes ont montré dans quelle mesure les établissements de soins de santé pouvaient contribuer à la propagation des infections, portant ainsi préjudice aux patients, aux agents de santé et aux visiteurs, si l’on n’accorde pas suffisamment d’attention à la lutte anti-infectieuse Mais un nouveau rapport de l
- WHO global water, sanitation and hygiene: annual report 2023
Overview This report summarizes the World Health Organization’s (WHO) global work on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) during 2023 It describes how the Organization continued to deliver its essential WASH programming as elaborated in its 2018–2025 strategy This includes publication and dissemination of its work monitoring access to WASH and WASH systems through the WHO UNICEF Joint
- Five moments for hand hygiene - World Health Organization (WHO)
Publications of the World Health OrganizationOverview It takes just 5 moments to change the world Clean your hands, stop the spread of drug-resistant germs!
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