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	Hand washing for health care workers Department of Health, Province of Kwazulu-Natal (2015) CC View PDF(3373) Download (892) Add to my MEDBOX Accessed 14 July 2015 Tags: handwashing, Hand Hygiene, IEC, health-care workers, Source: http://www.kznhealth.gov.za/publicity/ha
	Hand Hygiene: Why, How and When? World Health Organization WHO (2009) C_WHO Open external link (6671) Add to my MEDBOX Tags: hand washing, Hospital hygiene, Hygiene, AMR, Antimicrobial resistance, Source: https://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/Hand_Hygie
	Hand washing facility options for resource limited settings Africa CDC (2020) C2 View PDF(49) Download (63) Add to my MEDBOX 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 Tags: hand washing, Hand Hygiene, coronavirus, COVID-19, tippy tap, Source: https://africacdc.org/download/hand-wash
	Infographic: Hand washing without soap or safe and clean water Pan American Health Organisation PAHO (2020) CC View PDF(60) Download (58) Add to my MEDBOX Infographic illustrating how to wash your hands correctly when there is limited access to soap and clean water. Tags: Hand Hygiene, handy hygiene promotion, infographic, Source: https://www.paho.org/en/file/67721/downl
	Infografía: Alternativas de lavado de manos Pan American Health Organisation PAHO (2020) C_WHO View PDF(52) Download (55) Add to my MEDBOX Infografía ilustrando cómo lavarse las manos adecuadamente cuando hay acceso limitado a agua limpia y jabón. Tags: Hand Hygiene, lavado de manos, limitado a agua, Source: https://www.paho.org/es/file/67726/downl
	Opções de instalações para lavagem das mãos para configurações limitadas por recursos African Union; Africa CDC Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (2020) C1 View PDF(54) Download (56) Add to my MEDBOX 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 mão Tags: Hand Hygiene, tippy tap, hand washing stations, Source: https://africacdc.org/download/hand-wash
	Hand washing facility options for resource limited settings. Arabic Version African Union; Africa CDC Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (2020) C2 View PDF(22) Download (17) Add to my MEDBOX 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 Tags: hand washing, Hand Hygiene, coronavirus, COVID-19, tippy tap, Source: https://africacdc.org/download/hand-wash
	WHO: SAVE LIVES - Clean Your Hands - No action today; no cure tomorrow World Health Organization WHO (2014) C_WHO Open external link (127) Add to my MEDBOX Every year, millions of patients are affected by infections transmitted during their stay in a health-care facility, where resistant germs are often transferred via the hands of health workers. Resistance to antimicrobials reduces or impedes the effectiveness of any treatment for the prevention and cure of infections. Hand hygiene is the most effective intervention to reduce transmission of infections and resistant germs. The World Health Organization recommends the 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene. Watch this video produced by WHO's Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean to learn more about Hand Hygiene and the WHO 5 moments Tags: healthcare, Health Workers, Hygiene, Prevention, saving lives, Hand Hygiene, infection, WHO, Video, Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOKeFv5V
	Resource considerations for investing in hand hygiene improvement in health care facilities World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO View PDF(39) Download (33) Add to my MEDBOX 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 at the core of its implementation models for hand hygiene and infection prevention and control (IPC) programmes. The focus of this document is on the resource considerations for investing in hand hygiene improvement in health care (primary, secondary and tertiary) using the MMIS approach Tags: hand hygiene, health care facilities, healthcare, Health Workers, Infection Prevention and Control (IPC), prevention, Source: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/
	Hand hygiene for all initiative: improving access and behaviour in health care facilities World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO View PDF(20) Download (19) Add to my MEDBOX 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 water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) efforts. But how can hand hygiene implementation be successful? By implementing strategies and approaches proven through the successes of the WHO Save Lives: Clean Your Hands campaign and fostering integration between hand hygiene and WASH improvements. This brief draws on learning from legacy work and the current evidence based and summarizes how joint action and collaboration are essential for successful strategies, in the context of the COVID-19 response and beyon Tags: healthcare, Health Workers, hand hygiene, prevention, prevention and control, COVID-19, WASH, Infection Prevention and Control (IPC), Source: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/

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