‘Seconds save lives – clean your hands’: the 5 May 2021 World Health Organization’s SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign

Benedetta Allegranzi; Ermira Tartari; Didier Pittet

doi:10.3396/ijic.v17.21418

Benedetta Allegranzi Infection Prevention and Control Technical and Clinical Hub, Department of Integrated Health Services, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland
Ermira Tartari Infection Prevention and Control Technical and Clinical Hub, Department of Integrated Health Services, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland; Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Malta, Malta; and Infection Control Programme, University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland
Didier Pittet Infection Control Programme, University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3396/ijic.v17.21418

Keywords: hand hygiene, point of care, infection prevention and control, World Health Organization, healthcare-associated infection, public health, global health, policy-making, alcohol-based handrub, hand sanitizer

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