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Clean your hands 5 May Campaign 2024

Why is sharing knowledge about hand hygiene still so important? Because it helps stop the spread of harmful germs in healthcare. Save Lives Clean your Hands. Celebrate 5 May 2024 with SARAYA.

“Why is sharing knowledge about hand hygiene still so important? Because it helps stop the spread of harmful germs in healthcare” ― with this slogan the WHO runs its annual campaign, celebrating the World Hand Hygiene Day on the 5th of May, which invites you to join it with us, using our original posters available for download below.

Why is hand hygiene so important? Because it is one of the most effective ways to fight against infections, preventing their spread. It is vital to increase our knowledge of health care associated infections and following appropriate recommendations, including hand hygiene (for example, Your 5 moments of hand hygiene) to create a safe and responsible culture together.

This 2024-year campaign aims to remind us that sharing knowledge about hand hygiene and infection prevention and control (IPC) is critical, because hand hygiene saves millions of lives when performed at the right time in health care, despite 136 million cases of healthcare-associated infections occurring worldwide every year.

SARAYA's 5th of May 2024 original posters aim to raise awareness about the importance of hand hygiene in healthcare settings. Proper hand hygiene practices can help prevent the spread of infectious diseases, which could even promote overall health and well-being. These posters serve as a reminder that hand hygiene is everyone’s responsibility.

SARAYA supports healthcare workers by providing training and knowledge about infection prevention and control worldwide. For more information, visit our healthcare solutions page.

Objectives of WHHD 2024

  • Strengthen learning approaches to enable implementation of innovative and effective training to empower health and care workers to improve hand hygiene and IPC at point of care with enhanced knowledge, skills and behaviours.

  • Promote access to innovative hand hygiene and IPC training resources for health and care workers.

  • Raise awareness about the importance of knowledge and learning on hand hygiene at the right times to prevent a range of infectious diseases.

  • Encourage measurement and evaluation mechanisms to assess the impact of training and education on IPC standards and practices including hand hygiene, including their effect on the prevention of HAI and AMR.

  • For more information, click here.

WHO Save Lives Clean Your Hands 5 May Campaign Main Poster

If you are in Japan, please visit our Japanese Campaign page for local information.

SARAYA's posters for the 5 of May 2024 Campaign

Click on your favorite poster to download!

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