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.
The central core of SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands is that all health-care workers should clean their hands at the right time and in the right way.
World Hand Hygiene Day is held annually on 5 May. The ‘Save Lives: Clean Your Hands’ global campaign was launched by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2009.