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- Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH)
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
- Gloves do not replace hand hygiene – reminder from WHO
On World Hand Hygiene Day, the WHO emphasizes the critical role of hand hygiene in preventing infections, stating that gloves are not a substitute for proper handwashing
- 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
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
- 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
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