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The WHO global report on IPC 2024 was launched this week at the G7 meeting in Bari (Italy). According to WHO’s press release, the report found that 71% of countries have an active IPC program, but just 6% met all of the WHO IPC minimum requirements in 2023-24.
The report found that health-care facilities face significant financial and resource challenges, including a lack of IPC professionals and budgets, especially in LMICs. Nearly a quarter of countries reported shortages in their supply of personal protective equipment in 2023.
New data from WHO and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) estimates that up to 3.5 million patients could die annually from healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) without urgent action. Strengthening infection prevention and control (IPC) measures at all levels is essential to reducing these deaths. Modelling suggests that implementing IPC interventions at the point of care, coordinated by Ministries of Health or dedicated networks, could prevent up to 821,000 deaths per year by 2050.
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