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Dear ACIPC Members,
Find below and attached the WHO announcement for its global annual hand hygiene campaign, celebrated each year on 5 May.
Regards
Glenys
Glenys Harrington
Infection Control Consultancy (ICC)
P.O. Box 6385
Melbourne
Australia, 3004
M: +61 404816434
Dear colleagues
Once again WHO has announced its plans for its global annual hand hygiene campaign, celebrated each year on 5 May. Each year your support helps to ensure the amazing reach and success that is achieved for on-going hand hygiene improvement.
Background:
WHO is asking the world 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.
WHO recently issued new recommendations explaining what the core components of effective IPC programmes are, and to date hand hygiene is the best example of successful implementation of these components.
Everyone can continue to improving hand hygiene, fighting antibiotic resistance and commit to progressing towards adherence with all of the core components for IPC programmes now. This will result in strong, resilient health systems whatever the situation, whatever the country. Successful multimodal strategies can prevent infection and an infection prevented is an antibiotic treatment avoided!
Find attached the WHO newsletter from January 2017 for more background information.
Key wording for 2017, for you to use to cascade to colleagues around the world:
SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands 5 May 2017 – Fight antibiotic resistance – it’s in your hands
Our calls to action are:
*Health workers: Clean your hands at the right times and stop the spread of antibiotic resistance.
*Hospital Chief Executive Officers and Administrators: Lead a year-round infection prevention and control programme to protect your patients from resistant infections.”
*Policy-makers: “Stop antibiotic resistance spread by making infection prevention and hand hygiene a national policy priority.”
*IPC leaders: “Implement WHOs Core Components for infection prevention, including hand hygiene, to combat antibiotic resistance.Start planning your local, national and regional actions now!
Keep up to date with new WHO resources and messages that can be used for both advocacy and infection prevention and control action in your settings http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/en/
And please remember to ask those health facilities how have not yet registered for the campaign to do so here, it takes just a couple of minutes and demonstrates the world’s energy and commitment to preventing infections http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/register/en/
Thank you very much for your support.
Claire.
On behalf of Benedetta Allegranzi
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Claire Kilpatrick
RN, PGDipICN, MSc, MFTM RCPS (Glas)
Consultant to WHO Service Delivery and Safety – Infection Prevention and Control Global Unit
http://www.who.int/entity/gpsc/en/
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