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WHO SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands - celebrate on 5 or 7 May or choose your own day around this time to maintain the profile on the importance of hand hygiene in health care to reduce health care-associated infections. Join WHO in marking this important annual event; find more information on WHO activities and tools available to support you at http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/en/
WHO Call to Action:
Health-care facilities registered with WHO SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands - Prepare your action plans for improved hand hygiene and involve all staff and health-care facility leaders; WHO template actions plans are available http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/EN_PSP_GPSC1_5May_2012/en/index.html. If you have already implemented your hand hygiene action plan, report the results. Share your plan and results! Sharing is part of global learning. Send WHO your web link and we it will be featured to encourage others; email: savelives@who.int
If you are taking action in support of SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands you are already helping to save lives!
Local Call to Action
Those new to SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands - Show your health-care facility's commitment to improving hand hygiene by joining WHO in this global campaign. WHO are very close to achieving a goal of having over 155 countries participating in this campaign! Help WHO to continue increasing health-care facility registrations in every country, especially those who currently have no facilities registered http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/registration_update/en/index.html. New registrations are welcome now at http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/register/en/index.html
What WHO provide to support 5 May 2012 activities:
- Access an advocacy video by Professor Didier Pittet http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/video/en/index.html This can be used during local events
- Hand Hygiene in Outpatient Care Guidance & tools – This new document is on the WHO website, accompanied by supporting implementation tools
- Hand Hygiene Self-Assessment Framework Global Survey Results – on 5 May 2012 WHO will issue a summary report including the results by WHO region
- WHO free teleclass on 5&7 May 2012 by Professor Didier Pittet at 2.30 pm CET - this presentation entitled "Keeping the hand hygiene agenda alive: acting on data and the influence of global surveys" can be attended through the Webber Training system (www.webbertraining.com) or listen afterwards via a recorded version
- And WHO SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands will announce the new number of registered health-care facilities around the globe - if your facility hasnt registered yet, you can do it anytime at http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/register/en/index.html
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