5 May – World Hand Hygiene Day
https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-hand-hygiene-day
2024 THEME:
Promoting knowledge and capacity building of health and care workers through innovative and impactful training and education, on infection prevention and control, including hand hygiene.
Slogan:
Why is sharing knowledge about hand hygiene still so important? Because it helps stop the spread of harmful germs in healthcare.
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.