World Hand Hygiene Day 2025

Why hand hygiene still matters?

Every year, millions of patients and healthcare workers are affected by healthcare-associated infections many of them preventable.

Hand hygiene and environmental cleaning in healthcare settings are among the most effective and low-cost interventions to improve patient safety, prevent infections, and help contain antimicrobial resistance.

In the Region of the Americas, there is still much progress to be made in improving hand hygiene and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) conditions in healthcare facilities…read more

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