The World Health Organization found its five-prong hand hygiene compliance strategy to be successful in five countries, evidenced in a study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. The WHO ...
DERBY, England, Oct. 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- On Global Handwashing Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF launched the first global guidelines for hand hygiene in community settings — a ...
Nancy Burden, director of ambulatory surgery for BayCare Health System, describes how her ASC has worked to improve hand hygiene.Proper hand hygiene is an essential component of safe care. It has ...
Arlington, Va., March 16, 2023 – Findings from a new study published in the American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC), highlight perceptions of and barriers to reliable hand hygiene among specific ...
Our hands are the home for microorganisms which live on one's skin surface. Mostly, these microorganisms are harmless. But the hands can become infected with germs that are harmful to the body, while ...
Food. Warm clothing. A safe place to stay. When it comes to helping people in need, those are some of the essentials that come to mind.
A new study by the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN's Special Programme in Human Reproduction (HRP) and University of Liverpool published in ...