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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...
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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.
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To define the procedure for the conduct of in-person meetings in both healthcare and community settings in response to COVID-19 and with respect to Public Health and Social Measures (PHSMs) to reduce the risk of disease transmission. A general risk assessment must be conducted to inform...
This film covers handwashing best practice for health workers in hospitals.
This Video is available in Hausa and Yoruba.
accessed 08.2021
Investment in all the drivers and facilitators of hand hygiene action in health care to ensure that it occurs at the point of care and other critical moments requires a multidisciplinary, multifaceted approach. WHO describes such an approach as a “multimodal improvement strategy” (MMIS) which is...
Ces cinq indications sur l’hygiène des mains sont extraites des directives de l'OMS sur l'hygiène des mains dans les soins de santé pour ajouter de la valeur à toute stratégie d'amélioration de l'hygiène des mains. Tout simplement, elles définissent des moments clés de l'hygiène des main...
Pratiquez l'hygiene des mains, prévenez la propagation des germes multi-résistants
Ces cinq indications sur l’hygiène des mains sont extraites des directives de l'OMS sur l'hygiène des mains dans les soins de santé pour ajouter de la valeur à toute stratégie d'amélioration de l'hygiène des mains. Tout simplement, elles définissent des moments clés de l'hygiène des main...
Infografía ilustrando cómo lavarse las manos adecuadamente cuando hay acceso limitado a agua limpia y jabón.
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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
al...
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.
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...
Este documento fornece orientações aos Estados Membros da UA, estados/organismos locais, e comunidades sobre como construir e manter estações de lavagem de mãos sem contacto como Tippy Taps e outros
estações alternativas de lavagem de mãos
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...
Precauciones básicas: Higiene de las manos
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La plupart des infections associées aux soins de santé peuvent être évitées grâce à une bonne hygiène des mains - se laver les mains au bon moment et de la bonne manière. Les directives de l'OMS sur l'hygiène des mains lors des soins de santé soutiennent la promotion et l'amélioration de...
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...
Infographic illustrating how to wash your hands correctly when there is limited access to soap and clean water.
The WHO and UNICEF-led Hand Hygiene for All Initiative aims at ensuring implementation for WHO's global recommendations on hand hygiene to prevent and control COVID-19 pandemic, and hand hygiene improvement sustainability in countries as a mainstay of wider infection prevention and control (IPC) and...
Precauções básicas: higienização das mãos
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A maioria das infecções associadas a cuidados de saúde podem ser prevenidas com a correta higienização das mãos, ou seja, a limpeza das mãos nos momentos corretos, e da forma correta. As Diretrizes da OMS de higienização das mãos nos serviços de saúde incentivam a promoção e o aprimora...
