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01-12-2020 | Care | Commentary

“Nurses and midwives: clean care is in your hands”: the 5th May 2020 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign

Authors: Alexandra Peters, Nasim Lotfinejad, Chloé Guitart, Alice Simniceanu, Maria Clara Padoveze, Tcheun Borzykowski, Benedetta Allegranzi, Didier Pittet

Published in: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control | Issue 1/2020

Abstract

In honor of Florence Nightingale’s 200th birthday, the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared 2020 the “Year of the Nurse and Midwife”. On May 5th of this year, for the annual celebration of the SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign, WHO will focus on the essential role that nurses and midwives play in contributing to saving millions of lives per year. It is necessary to recognize the work and the immense responsibility that nurses and midwives carry since achieving Universal Health Coverage is highly reliant on them.

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”Guidelines on core components of infection prevention and control programmes at the national and acute health care facility level”. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2016. https://www.who.int/gpsc/ipc-components-guidelines/en/.

Title: “Nurses and midwives: clean care is in your hands”: the 5th May 2020 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign
Authors: Alexandra Peters
Nasim Lotfinejad
Chloé Guitart
Alice Simniceanu
Maria Clara Padoveze
Tcheun Borzykowski
Benedetta Allegranzi
Didier Pittet
Publication date: 01-12-2020
Publisher: BioMed Central
Keyword: Care
Published in: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control / Issue 1/2020
Electronic ISSN: 2047-2994
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13756-020-00717-6

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