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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)
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
- Infection prevention and control - World Health Organization (WHO)
The solution 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 tools
- Gloves do not replace hand hygiene – reminder from WHO
Hand hygiene is one of the most effective, affordable and universal tools we have to prevent the transmission of infections and provide high-quality, clean and safe medical care While medical gloves serve a vital role in preventing transmission of infection, for example when there is risk of exposure to blood and body fluids, they are not a
- World Hand Hygiene Day 2025 - World Health Organization (WHO)
Promote optimal hand hygiene practices (using the appropriate technique and according to the WHO 5 Moments) and the times for appropriate glove use within the health care workflow Promote inclusion of hand hygiene within national IPC strategies , as well as standard operating procedures (SOPs) at facility level , according to the
- WHO, UNICEF update country tracker on water, sanitation and hygiene in . . .
The World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF have released an updated country progress tracker that shows how countries are advancing efforts to improve water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH) and waste services in health-care facilities The tracker, now covering 107 countries – up from 75 two years ago – underpins global monitoring against the 2023 United Nations General Assembly Resolution
- WHO global water, sanitation and hygiene: annual report 2023
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
- 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
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