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The World Health Organisation (HO) are holding a free webinar to launch their new Healthcare-Associated Infection (HAI) Surveillance handbook.
Date: 16 October 2024
Time: 13:30 – 15:00 CET
In the context of strengthening national and facility-level HAI surveillance as a core component of infection prevention and control (IPC) programmes, WHO is publishing a new practical handbook on HAI surveillance, including new simplified and validated case definitions. The main purpose of this handbook is to provide comprehensive guidance on the objectives, key concepts, principles, methods, and best practices of HAI surveillance, in order to help policymakers and IPC and surveillance professionals to design and implement effective surveillance systems to measure the burden of HAI and take action for its prevention. The handbook also includes new definitions that were developed and validated by WHO with consensus by international experts, with the intent that they could be more suitable for use in low-resource settings. These efforts are aimed at enabling more countries to design and implement HAIs surveillance systems programmes, fostering more consistent data collection across diverse healthcare settings, and streamlining the identification of HAIs for global, regional, and national benchmarking.
Objectives:
– To describe the principles and content of the new WHO practical handbook on HAI surveillance
– To present the methods of development of the new WHO HAI surveillance case definitions and the results of the validation study
– To describe capacity building initiatives on HAI surveillance
– To discuss synergies between HAI and AMR surveillance programmes
For more information and to register, please click the link below:
https://echo.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ck1eL0gxSo-O6XdsX_FqfQ#/registration
The webinar will be held in English and with simultaneous translations in French and Spanish.
For any query, please contact: ipcglobalcommunity@who.int