WHO’s annual hand hygiene day is 5 May every year. The SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign aims to progress the goal of maintaining a global profile on the importance of hand hygiene in health care and to ‘bring people together’ in support of hand hygiene and infection prevention and control improvement globally. Find more information here and support the calls to action. https://www.who.int/infection-prevention/campaigns/clean-hands/en/

WHO has launched the 2019 WHO Global Survey on Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) and Hand Hygiene. It will be open for four months from 16 January to 16 May 2019. The survey has two levels, involving the completion of two tools at the health care facility