News
3 May 2017
WHO Global Campaign
SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands 5 May 2017
'Fight antibiotic resistance - it's in your hands'
WHO urges us to focus on the fight against antibiotic resistance in the context of hand hygiene and infection prevention and control (IPC) programmes. Hand hygiene is at the core of effective IPC to combat antibiotic resistance, and campaigning each year on or around 5 May is one important part of improving behaviour towards IPC best practices. This year the campaign materials are all co-branded with ‘Antibiotics, handle with care’ to demonstrate unity between antimicrobial resistance and IPC efforts.