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"Clean care for all - It's in your hands": The May 5th, 2019 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign
PETERS, Alexandra, et al.
PETERS, Alexandra, et al . "Clean care for all - It's in your hands": The May 5th, 2019 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign. International Journal of Infectious Diseases , 2019, vol. 82, p. 135-136
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Editorial
“ Clean care for all — It ’ s in your hands ” : The May 5th, 2019 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign
Qualityhealthcareshouldbeavailabletoeveryone.TheWorld HealthOrganization’s(WHO)conceptofUniversalHealthCover- age(UHC)(WHO,2019a),embodiestheurgentneedforaccessto healthcareforallpeoplearoundtheworld.Inadditiontoaccess, the concept of UHC incorporates the critical element of the necessary quality of delivered health care services. Infection prevention and control (IPC) with hand hygiene as the most effectivemeasureisapracticalandevidence-basedapproachwith demonstratedimpactonqualityofcareandpatientsafetyacross alllevelsofthehealthsystem.
Eachyear,theWHOSAVE LIVES:Clean YourHands campaign aims to bring people together in support of hand hygiene improvementgloballyonoraroundMay5th(WHO,2019b).This year’sthemeforglobalannualhandhygienedayreflectsastrong focusonprovidingcleancareequallyprotectingallpatientsand healthcare workersfrom infection and antimicrobial resistance transmission, across all countries, including in low-resource settings.
WHO urges ministries of health, health facility leaders, IPC leaders,healthworkers,andpatientadvocacygroupstocontribute toeffectiveIPCactionincludinghandhygieneasacornerstoneof qualityinhealthcare(Table1).WHOinvitesallhealthcarefacilities tojointhe2019WHOGlobalSurveyonIPCandHandHygieneby usingtwovalidatedassessmenttools;oneforevaluatingthecore
componentsofIPCprogrammesandtheotherforadeepdivein hand hygiene activities (https://www.who.int/infection-preven- tion/campaigns/ipc-global-survey-2019/en/).
Onafacilitylevel,theuseofthesetoolsgivesinstitutionsaclear understandingofthestrengthsandweaknessesoftheirIPC and hand hygiene programmes, and provides concrete actions to addressexistinggaps. Thesetoolsallowinstitutionstoimprove theirIPCpracticesandpoliciesinaconcreteandmeasurableway, at their own speed and in their own context.The surveys are anonymous,andglobalresultswillbemadeavailableonlyusing aggregateddata.Thismeansthatfacilitiesandministriesofhealth cancommitfullytoworkingonimprovingIPCandpatientsafety withoutfearofscrutinyorpossiblenegativerepercussions.
Globally,thissurveywillallowWHOtoprovideasituational analysisonthelevelofprogressofcurrentIPCandhandhygiene activitiesaroundtheworldandinformfutureeffortsandresource usefor IPC capacity buildingand improvement.GlobalSurveys usingtheHandHygieneSelf-AssessmentFrameworkwerealready conductedin2011and2015(WHO,2019c;Allegranzietal.,2014;
Kilpatricketal.,2018),makingthisyear’ssurveyevenmorecrucial for tracking theimplementationof hand hygieneand IPC ona globalscale(Figure1).
Each improvement in IPC contributes toward quality UHC.
“Cleancareforall—it’sinyourhands”!
Table1
May5,2019,WorldHealthOrganizationSAVELIVES:CleanYourHandscampaigncallstoaction.
Campaignparticipants Calltoaction
Healthworkers “Championcleancare—it’sinyourhands.”
IPC*leaders “Monitorinfectionpreventionandcontrolstandards—takeactionandimprovepractices.”
Healthfacilityleaders “IsyourfacilityuptoWHOinfectioncontrolandhandhygienestandards?TakepartintheWHOsurvey2019andtakeaction!”
Ministriesofhealth “Doesyourcountrymeetinfectionpreventionandcontrolstandards?Monitorandacttoachievequalityuniversalhealthcoverage.”
Patientadvocacygroups “Askforcleancare—it’syourright.”
* IPC–infectionpreventionandcontrol.
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Acknowledgements
This work is supported by the World Health Organization (WHO),Geneva,Switzerland,andtheInfectionControlProgramme and WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety (SPCI/WCC), UniversityofGenevaHospitalsandFacultyofMedicine,Geneva, Switzerland;handhygieneresearchactivitiesattheSPCI/WCCare alsosupportedbytheSwissNationalScienceFoundation(grantno.
32003B_163262).
Theauthorsaloneareresponsiblefortheviewsexpressedin this article and they do not necessarily represent the views, decisions or policies of the institutions with which they are affiliated. WHO takes no responsibility for the information providedortheviewsexpressedinthispaper.
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AlexandraPeters TcheunBorzykowski ErmiraTartari InfectionControlProgrammeandWHOCollaboratingCentreon PatientSafety,UniversityofGenevaHospitalsandFacultyof Medicine,Geneva,Switzerland ClaireKilpatrick HwaiChuenSafiahMai BenedettaAllegranzi InfectionPreventionandControlGlobalUnit,DepartmentofService DeliveryandSafety,WorldHealthOrganization,Geneva,Switzerland DidierPittet*
InfectionControlProgrammeandWHOCollaboratingCentreon PatientSafety,UniversityofGenevaHospitalsandFacultyof Medicine,Geneva,Switzerland
* Correspondingauthorat:InfectionControlProgrammeand WHOCollaboratingCentreonPatientSafety,UniversityofGeneva HospitalsandFacultyofMedicine,4RueGabrielle-Perret-Gentil, 1211Geneva14,Switzerland.
E-mailaddress:Didier.pittet@hcuge.ch(D.Pittet).
CorrespondingEditor:EskildPetersen,Aarhus,Denmark Figure1.May5,2019:“Cleancareforall–it'sinyourhands”!.
TheMay5,2019,WorldHealthOrganizationSAVELIVES:CleanYourHandscampaign sloganandmainpromotionalimage(2019hashtags:#HandHygiene#Infection- Prevention#HealthForAll).Campaignparticipantsareinvitedtosubmitphotosor selfies of them holding a board with the slogan and hashtags at www.
CleanHandsSaveLives.org.
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