World Hand Hygiene Day Observed on 5 May 2025.

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World Hand Hygiene Day (WHHD) is a global awareness initiative led by the World Health Organization (WHO), observed annually on May 5 to emphasize the critical role of hand hygiene in preventing the spread of infectious diseases, particularly in healthcare settings.


      - Theme for WHHD 2025: "It might be gloves. It's always hand hygiene".

     

     

Main Point :-   (i). WHHD is part of the ‘SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands’ campaign, which promotes evidence-based hand hygiene practices to reduce healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) across the globe.

      (ii) The campaign stems from the WHO’s First Global Patient Safety Challenge: Clean Care is Safer Care, which was launched in 2009 to strengthen global commitment to infection prevention.

(iii) The year 2025 marks the 17th anniversary of the global hand hygiene campaign, highlighting sustained efforts to improve hygiene standards and patient safety worldwide.

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