How to get involved in World Hand Hygiene Day, 5 May 2021

Dear Friends and Colleagues,
 
The World Health Organization is inviting you to actively participate in the annual “SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands” campaign to be celebrated on World Hand Hygiene Day, 5 May 2021, and is asking your invaluable support to promote the WHO.
 
You can find:

• The description of the campaign theme, key objectives, and slogan here, including a video from the WHO Deputy Director-General and myself;
• The actions people can take to get involved can be found here;
• Many tools for the campaign's target audiences can also be found within the above web pages.
  

A summary is also provided in our latest newsletter, as well as in an advocacy presentation downloadable here.
 

We would also like to ask you to:

• Get personally involved;
• Send communications within your facility/organization and through your networks promoting the campaign theme, slogan, and calls to action and pointing them to our web pages and resources (i.e. the links above);
• Display the web banner (downloadable here) and/or feature the link to the WHO campaign on your web pages;
• Promote registration of health care facilities in the campaign;
• Promote participation in the Faces of the Campaign initiative, and in the 5 May events (explained here) through your social media networks;
• Let the WHO know about your actions by sending an email to savelives@who.int - they will be delighted!
   Many thanks in advance.
  

Best wishes,
Didier Pittet

Professor Didier Pittet, MD, MS, CBE
Director, Infection Control Programme  
The University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine
Geneva, Switzerland
Phone: +41 22 372 9828 / +41 22 372 9833 (direct)
Fax: +41 22 372 39 87
E-mail: didier.pittet@hcuge.ch  
See last TEDxTalk at www.tinyurl.com/AdaptToAdopt
 
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