Each 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 improvement globally.

WHO calls on everyone to be inspired by the global movement to achieve universal health coverage (UHC).

Infection Prevention and Control, including hand hygiene, is critical to achieve UHC as it is a practical and evidence-based approach with demonstrated impact on quality of care and patient safety across all levels of the health system.

SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands incorporates a global annual day to focus on the importance of improving hand hygiene in health care with WHO providing support for these efforts. WHO have created a suite of hand hygiene improvement tools including: 5 Moments of Hand Hygiene, How to Handrub, and How to Handwash. The tools aim to help the translation into practice of a multimodal strategy for improving and sustaining hand hygiene in health care.

5 Moments for Hand Hygiene: