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Clean Hands Count!

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) with support from GOJO and the CDC Foundation Launched the Clean Hands Count Campaign on May 5, 2016 – World Hand Hygiene Day.

The Clean Hands Count Campaign is a national educational campaign to improve hand hygiene in healthcare settings to reduce the number of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). According to the CDC, on any given day, one in 25 hospital patients has at least one HAI.

Infections that patients get in the hospital can be life-threatening and hard to treat, but improving hand hygiene is one of the most important measures and key strategies healthcare workers can take to prevent transmission of infections.

The campaign features a variety of communications for healthcare workers, patients and family members including infographics, posters, factsheets and brochures.

KEEP THE CONVERSATION GOING

Join the CDC in promoting hand hygiene with the Clean Hands Count Campaign using the hashtag #CleanHandsCount on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest.

To learn more about the Clean Hands Count Campaign, visit www.cdc.gov/handhygiene

World Health Organization’s SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands – May 5, 2020

Each year on May 5th, the World Health Organization’s SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign aims to progress the goal of maintaining a global profile on the importance of hand hygiene in healthcare and to bring people together in support of hand hygiene improvement globally. The 2020 campaign, "Nurses and Midwives, clean care is in your hands!", focuses on clean care, including hand hygiene best practices, and the central role played by nurses and midwives in achieving this.

We invite you to join the thousands of hospitals around the world in celebrating and empowering nurses and midwives in the monumental work that they do to keep our patients, families, and their colleagues safe by preventing health care-associated infections.

Here is how you can get involved!

1. Plan

Commit to WHO’s campaign theme and issue your own information in the month leading up to the campaign
Visit the WHO 5 May 2020 website and the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife 2020 campaign page regularly for ongoing updates and new downloads, including posters, animations, banners, social media information and additional engagement tools.

2. Act

Sign up to the ‘SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands’ campaign if you have not already done so, and ask others to join the campaign as well. More information here: http://www.who.int/infection-prevention/campaigns/clean-hands/register/en/
Get team members involved

3. Communicate

Follow the World Health Organization on Twitter (@WHO), Facebook, Instagram, and share social media posts relating to 5 May activities with your followers and friends.
Share photos on social media using the #handhygiene and #antibiotic resistance – remember to join the conversation on 5 May
Download the NEW poster pdfs from this WHO page and choose from the selection of GOJO educational items below to raise awareness

The GOJO Hand Hygiene Education Toolkit