Sign up for SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign

Sign up for SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign

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If you have already registered for SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands there is no need to register again each year.

You can still register now and be part of a global movement to improve hand hygiene! 23 564 health-care facilities from around the globe have already registered!

Are you a hospital or health-care facility wanting to improve infection control?

If so, register your interest now!

Hospitals and health-care facilities throughout the world are invited to take part in a global initiative, to continue to raise hand hygiene awareness, to move action to the point of care, and to reduce health care-associated infection (HAI).

  • Be part of a global movement to improve hand hygiene; receive acknowledgement of this from WHO.
  • Join a network of countries that have already committed to sustained hand hygiene campaigning.
  • Be one of the leaders helping to prevent HAI in your country; subsequently saving lives.
  • Get support for moving from commitment to action at the point of patient care.
  • Have the opportunity to share your knowledge and successes with others.
  • Demonstrate your commitment to making patient safety THE No 1 priority.

If you wish to register a number of facilities in one block, please complete the excel spreadsheet below with details for each facility. Then email it to savelives@who.int. If you wish, you can register a group of facilities under the name and contact details of one focal person, who will forward information to each facility. If you are unable to complete the web form or an excel spreadsheet, it is possible to register for SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands via a paper form, which can be returned by fax or post. 

Please email savelives@who.int to request a copy of the form.

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Around 5 million infections

occur annually in European hospitals, representing an extra 25 million days in hospital and an economic burden of €13–24 billion.

Approximately 70% of health care workers

do not routinely practise hand hygiene, with health workers reporting misunderstandings about the relevance and importance of hand hygiene in everyday clinical practice.

Surgical site infections

are the most frequent type of infection in low- and middle-income countries, with a pooled incidence of 11.8%, compared to 1.2 – 5.2% in developed countries