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Hand hygiene is vital for safe health care delivery, yet practices at the point of care remain suboptimal worldwide. A comprehensive research agenda is therefore necessary to improve our understanding of factors influencing hand hygiene behaviour and to strengthen appropriate interventions. This age...
Hand Hygiene: Why, How and When?
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Hand Hygiene: Why, How, & When?
Pratiquez l'hygiene des mains, prévenez la propagation des germes multi-résistants
Ce guide de production locale des solutions hydro-alcooliques selon les formulations recommandées par l’OMS se compose de deux parties étroitement liées
Les infections associées aux soins (IAS) touchent des centaines de millions de patients dans le monde chaque année. Ces infections sont à l’origine de pathologies graves, de prolongements de la durée du séjour en établissement de soins, d’invalidités à long terme, de coûts personnels im...
Caregiver: Standard precautions
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Issue Brief 28: Cargiver Toolbox Part 2
A collection of important documents from the category "Standard precautions", including hand hygiene, waste management, infection and prevention control (IPC) measures.
3ème édition. Le compendium fournit des conseils sur les installations de lavage des mains à faible coût qui peuvent être largement utilisées dans les pays à revenu faible et intermédiaire. Nous espérons qu'il pourra être largement partagé par les gouvernements et les agences qui s'attaqu...
3rd editionThe compendium provides guidance on low-cost handwashing facilities that can be widely used in low and middle-income countries. We hope that this can be shared extensively as governments and agencies tackle the crisis in low and middle-income countries where handwashing facilities are urg...
The compendium provides guidance on low-cost handwashing facilities that can be widely used in low and middle-income countries. We hope that this can be shared extensively as governments and agencies tackle the crisis in low and middle-income countries where handwashing facilities are urgently neede...
First Global Patient Safety Challenge Clean Care is Safer Care
The WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care provide health-care workers (HCWs), hospital administrators and health authorities with a thorough review of evidence on hand hygiene in health care and specific recommendations to impro...
How to Hand rub?
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Handwashing for health care workers
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Poster for communities and health worker
Accessed 14 July 2015
Le lavage des mains
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Lavez-vous les mains avec de l'eau et du savon pendant 20 à 30 secondes immédiatement après avoir retiré votre équipement personnel de protection. Si vos mains sont souillées, lavez-les avec de l'eau et du savon pendant 40 à 60 secondes. Vous pouvez utiliser une solution hydro-alcoolique ou d...
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This document provides guidance to AU Member States, states/local bodies, and communities
on how to construct and maintain non-contact hand washing stations like Tippy Taps and other
alternative hand washing stations.
