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
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 - 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
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: 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
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
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 2020 This report summarizes the World Health Organization’s (WHO) global work on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) during 2020 It describes WHO’s WASH response to COVID-19 and, despite the pandemic, how the Organization continued to deliver its essential WASH programming as elaborated in its 2018–2025 strategy
Hand Hygiene for All Global Initiative - World Health Organization (WHO) Good hand hygiene is a highly cost-effective public health measure, and a cornerstone of safe and effective health care It is crucial to protecting against a range of diseases, stopping the transmission of COVID-19, and preventing other outbreak-related diseases It is also critical to combatting antimicrobial resistance (AMR) The Hand Hygiene for All Global Initiative aims to implement WHO