SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands 

Fight antibiotic resistance - it's in your hands

Each year the World Health Organization (WHO) 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.

This year's theme is health care-associated sepsis prevention and hand hygiene/infection prevention, with the slogan: ‘It’s in your hands – prevent sepsis in health care’.

WHO urges you to focus on the fight against antibiotic resistance in the context of hand hygiene and infection prevention and control (IPC) programmes. You can do this by supporting the 5 May 2017 calls to action. 

WHO Calls to Action:

• Health workers: “Take 5 Moments to clean your hands to prevent sepsis in health care."
• IPC leaders: “Be a champion in promoting hand hygiene to prevent sepsis in health care.”
• Health facility leaders: "Prevent sepsis in health care, make hand hygiene a quality indicator in your hospital.”
• Ministries of health: "Implement the 2017 WHA sepsis resolution. Make hand hygiene a national marker of health care quality."
• Patient advocacy groups: "Ask for 5 Moments of clean hands to prevent sepsis in health care."

Join the Campaign and take action! Further information, tools and resources can be found on the campaign web page - http://www.who.int/infection-prevention/campaigns/clean-hands/en/