# World Health Organization World Hand Hygiene Day, 5 May 2024. SAVE LIVES: clean your hands campaign: promoting knowledge and capacity building on infection prevention and control, including hand hygiene, among health and care workers

## TL;DR

This paper discusses the importance of hand hygiene in healthcare to reduce infections and improve patient safety.

## Contribution

The contribution is promoting global awareness and action on hand hygiene among healthcare workers.

## Key findings

- World Hand Hygiene Day aims to reduce healthcare-associated infections.
- Promoting hand hygiene contributes to safer and quality healthcare for all.

## Abstract

The World Health Organization’s (WHO) World Hand Hygiene Day continues to “bring people together and accelerate hand hygiene action at the point of care in health care to contribute to a reduction in health care-associated infections and the achievement of safer, quality health care for all”.